Like Unto Moses: The Constituting of an InterruptionIndiana University Press, 1995 M05 22 - 416 pages "This exhaustive and important study of the meaning of Moses in the Bible demonstrates conclusively 'the Mosaicization of the canon'... Nohrnberg possesses a remarkable typological imagination. No summary can do justice to the sheer brilliance of the congruities and disparities he discovers on every page." -- Journal of Religion "LIKE UNTO MOSES proposes a series of challenging perspectives on theprocess of canon-formation in the Bible. James Nohrnberg's ability totrace connections among different elements of the biblical corpus isunflaggingly resourceful, sometimes provocative, and often deeplyinstructive." -- Robert Alter "... an insightful study of the traditions of Moses in the Bible." -- Choice "This is a formidably argued, large book.... It is also certainly the most sophisticated book on Moses and one of the most sophisticated readings of the Bible which I have ever had the pleasure of reading.... I think it is a brilliant achievement and would recommend it to every reader of the Bible." -- R. P. Carroll, The Society for Old Testament Study Book List The Moses of the Bible is a veiled figure who exists both inside and outside the text which describes and defines him. "Moses" is a creation of Israelite literary and scriptural tradition, an ideological construct, a reinvented memory, a projection of what Israel wished to see in Moses. Nohrnberg examines the texts of "Moses" for their representation of the tradition's self-doubt and its revisionary, "deuteronomic" content. |
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... Mosaic office , constitutes Israel as a people set apart to God , and masters the discourse of law . A figure revealed by the veil that conceals him , he exists both inside and outside the text that describes and defines him . " Moses ...
... Mosaic Intervention 9. " Thus I Am to Be Remembered " : Sinai and the Name 165 174 10. Prophet unto Pharaoh 189 11 ... Mosaic History 273 B. The Mosaic Revolution and the Northern Kingship C. The Mosaic Revolution and the Kingship in ...
... Mosaic " bill of divorcement " ( Deut . 24 : 1 , 3 , with Isa . 50 : 1 ) . An earlier prophet shows us the content of such disadop- tion papers , where God tells Hosea's wife to name her last child after Israel's disinheritance : " Call ...
... Mosaic vita also suggests some limits upon the Mosaic tra- dition . Nonetheless , the life is capable of legendary and exceptional fea- tures that make it exemplary or privileged , at least in the eyes of a Mosaic discipleship . Insofar ...
... Mosaic congregations and constituencies . The more complete the reception of the Mosaic persona , the more it interposes a veil of unknowability between us and any putative original . Moses wears a veil not when he is speaking to God ...
Contents
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The Text of the | 43 |
Moralia in Exodum | 133 |
Sojourner in Midian | 153 |
The Prehistory of Mosaic Intervention | 165 |
Sinai and the Name | 174 |
Prophet unto Pharaoh | 189 |
The Burden of Egypt | 208 |
The Exodus and the Numbering | 241 |
The Exodus and the Visiting | 250 |
Allegories of Scripture | 267 |
The Golden Calf and the History of the Priestly | 307 |
Supplementary Originals | 325 |
Notes | 347 |
General Index | 377 |
Scriptural Index | 391 |