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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... bringing it into the service of God : his service is the brokerage of a relation . But Moses not only enlists Israel in the service of God , he also enlists God in the service of Israel . We owe the Bible's portrait of Moses to Israel's ...
... brings a rendezvous with Israel's ideological destiny — and the sealing of the deed of a specific histor- ical commitment . If the Bible is itself this deed or contract , its hero will always bring Moses with him . Like territorial ...
... Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies . ( Exod : 6:20 , 26 ) Each Mosaic figure — traditional , received , exemplary , and institutional— derives from the text . The traditionality of the ...
... brings a law he hesitates to deliver ; he does not so much bring it , as bring it back , in the form of writing — inscriptions that others can thereafter speak . The levitical law about the keeping of the law ( Lev . 19 : 36b - 37 ) ...
... bringing the convertible analogy between the history of the texts and the texts of the ( hi ) story to bear upon the comparisons sug- gested by the period of Josiah . In this period there is in fact a destroyed and reconstructed text ...
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 |