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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... Sinai's awful cave / To Man the wondrous art of writing gave " ( Jerusalem , prol . ) . Both of my Toronto men- tors might have been present on the occasion in question : study in Canada proved an opportune remove from one's country of ...
... Sinai with three tables , proclaiming to them , " I give you the fifteen— " : but one table drops and breaks , and Moses hastily emends , " —ten commandments . " This scene should be compared to my epi- graph ( for Part I ) from Kafka ...
... Sinai in Exodus ( Deut . 4 : 5 ) . By the time of Deuteronomy , he is not only keeping the legal corpora , but also the tradi- tion of what had happened in his own prior existence , and in the prior existence of the wilderness Israel.6 ...
... Sinai , as the Lord had commanded him , and took in his hand the two tables of stone . . . . And the Lord said unto Moses , Write thou these words : for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel ...
... Sinai ( Deut . 33 : 2 ) , and Jeremiah shares in the same affect : " I am making my words in your mouth a fire , and this people wood , and the fire shall devour them " ( Jer . 5:14 , RSV ) . This denunciatory power suggests that 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 |