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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... Moses is an unknown alien , an adoptive Egyptian , a self - confessed stammerer ; yet he fills the Mosaic office , constitutes Israel as a people set apart to God , and ... MOSES This One U5KX - 658-65F7 Indiana Studies Like unto Moses.
... Moses , except by imputation , because the author has neither denied himself Moses ' human limitation of lack of access to the divine omniscience nor availed himself of the human freedom of an individuating authorial personality or the ...
... Moses and his activity as in some sense or other an ideo- logical and textual composite . Part I , " The Canonization of Moses , " concerns this construct as Moses himself seems personally to constitute it . Part II presents a two ...
The Constituting of an Interruption James Nohrnberg. 1 . THE FACE OF MOSES And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see , God called unto him out of the midst of the bush , and said , Moses , Moses . And he said , Here am I. And he ...
... Moses - like prophet in Isaiah who denies that exilic Israel possesses any 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 ...
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 |