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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... prophet . In respect to personal choice , he is like a dutiful recorder of objective historical fact : his sole ostensible purpose is to inform the page with the signs and marks that tell what has transpired in the order of events . His ...
... Prophet unto Pharaoh " has been taken to mean also " prophet to the Israelite state . " ) The con- cluding chapter is retrospective : it is made up of three excursus on fur- ther allegories of ( and analogies for ) major narratives ...
... prophet in Isaiah who denies that exilic Israel possesses any Mosaic " bill of divorcement " ( Deut . 24 : 1 , 3 , with Isa . 50 : 1 ) . An earlier prophet shows us the content of such disadop- tion papers , where God tells Hosea's wife ...
... prophets . He is not received as Abraham is , by an audience that uses traditional stories to establish its identity . Moses is necessarily received more as a prophet is , on the authority he obtains by invoking his call from Yahweh ...
... prophetic mission , indicated by an inaugural vision and by participation in God's counsels ( Amos , Isaiah , Jeremiah ... prophet ( Luke 11:47 ) . The Moses of Deuter- onomy seems in particular to be created out of longings for an ...
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 |