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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... number of authors each producing his own individual canon within the field of a technically canonless literature , and an ancient lit- erature that has become , as it were , all canon . By definition , a canon is complete ; its members ...
... number of comparisons offered by the present book . Nobody would care about the Bible as the Bible , that is , as a whole , if in fact nothing in it had prepared him or her to do so . The virtual absence of different narrators ...
... numbers remind us of the gag in Mel Brooks's History of the World , Part I , where Moses appears before his people on Sinai with three tables , proclaiming to them , " I give you the fifteen— " : but one table drops and breaks , and ...
... number of years . He has particularly insisted I attempt to theo- rize both the poesis and the poetics of an origin . Let me add my deepest thanks to my scholarly copy editor here : Nancy Miller's great pains have spared me many errors ...
... Numbers 3 and 8 , and the blessing of Levi in Deuteronomy 33 : 8-11 ) . As a result , all of Moses ' own offices seem provisional and pregeneric , unique to the Mosaic period and unique to Moses.9 Insofar as the functions he delegates ...
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 |