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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... hand did not know what my left was doing . In several places , at any rate , I have used " Northern " and " Southern " in ways that sometimes cut across the classical documentarian's favorite strands— " heteroglossically , " if not ...
... hand of Moses " ( Lev . 8:36 , 26:46 ) . So Solomon's dedicatory speech at 1 Kings 8 : 56b : " there hath not failed one word of all [ God's ] good promise , which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant . " Indeed , the massing of ...
... 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 . And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty ...
... hand , when God remembers what Pharaoh , being dead , has necessarily forgotten . God remembers Israel down in the " iron furnace " of Egypt ( Deut . 4:20 , 1 Kings 8:51 , Jer . 11 : 4 ) , as he remembered Noah inside the ark ( Gen. 8 ...
... hand of the God who came from 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 ...
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 |