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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... shows that any com- prehensive poetics of the Bible owes us a positive or value - added account of such ste- reoscopic and anachronic structures within these texts . The book is divided into four parts . The first two parts treat Moses ...
... shows us the content of such disadop- tion papers , where God tells Hosea's wife to name her last child after Israel's disinheritance : " Call his name Lō - ăm ' - mi : for ye are not my people , and I will not be your God " ( Hos . 1 ...
... shows God appointing Aaron to speak for Moses , but the logic of the relation shows Moses spoken for by the sons of Aaron : Moses is available . " Uncle Moses " appointed the landless Levitical priesthood in the wilderness sojourn ...
... shows that Moses is one on whom much might depend because he is the one to whom much has been attached . But Moses does not initially speak the law . He is cred- ited with publishing the Decalogue . The narrative of this publication ...
... shows us why we will never know what God told Moses in the first instance : because one or another Moses stands between us and his original , and has destroyed the primary trans- mission from God — though on behalf of its subsequent ...
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 |