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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... offers this way of reading the leg- endary author of the Israelite constitution , and analogous ways of reading the Israel- ite people's national fable of identity . Nohrnberg re - makes the literary case for reading biblical textuality ...
... Moses , also related to the kingship , the cult , and the landed Israel . A somewhat " deuteronomic " recapitulation offers to conclude this work , but long before this point the reader is likely to see that xiv Preface.
... offer straight answers to the questions put by historical inquiry , but only to questions about the content of " the Mosaic . " Moses as historical fact is buried under legends and interpretations that modify his personage for the use ...
... offer of a new relation with God , or the divine legislation of a new national life — also brings with him the question ... offers itself as a prior condition — such a tradition no longer challenges belief in the present . To believe in ...
... offer upon my altar , to burn incense , to wear an ephod before me ? " ( 1 Sam . 2 : 27-28 ) . If this happened when Israel was in Egypt , then it took place at the call of Moses itself . References to Moses and Aaron as co - present in ...
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 |