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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... less fruitful than the discussion of how or why an editor in the time of the scriptoria of the early or the later kings might have been inspired by received materials ( or " tradents " ) to create or maintain a certain traceable line in ...
... less , the order of the narrative in Exodus 1-15 . In chapters 13 and 14 , however , I return to the Passover ( Exodus 12-13 ) , after having already expanded on the Reed Sea ( Exodus 14-15 ) . That is , the Passover narrative is only ...
... less the Argo for all that . Regarding citations : the Bible , Jewish and Christian , is quoted in English translations , from the " AV , " or Authorized Version ( = King James Version ) where not otherwise indicated . ( The AV's ...
... less a call to one's true allegiance . I should add that without Yale's Morse Fellow- ship , a Guggenheim Fellowship , and paid sabbatical leave through the office of the late Dean Hugh Kelly of the University of Virginia , my ideas on ...
... less exportable than the heroes of romance — an Odyssean hero in Aristophanes , a Byronic hero in a Bronte novel , the shell of the Byronic hero in Conrad . 1 Like the biblical patriarchs , Moses brings with him a specifically Israelite ...
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 |