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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... sons of Aaron , " yet Aaron's predeceasing of Moses suggests that Moses redeems the priesthood's orig- inal patron , vaguely in the way that a surviving brother raises up sons to a deceased brother by marrying the widow . The narrative ...
... sons of Jacob , Rebekah is required to believe both ways : to believe , that is , that she could be related to Abraham , both genetically , in the past , and legally , in the future , and that her son can lay claim to that relation ...
... sons of the prophets . " Moses is so often addressed by God that it is almost his calling to be called , and hence to be renewed in some very broadly con- ceived Mosaic vocation . But what , besides being " Mosaic , " is this vocation ...
... sons of Levi as devotees , priests , and educators ( cf. the appointment of the Levites in Numbers 3 and 8 , and the blessing of Levi in Deuteronomy 33 : 8-11 ) . As a result , all of Moses ' own offices seem provisional and pregeneric ...
... sons of the sojourning Fathers , rather than to the shrines where the Fathers ' god was worshipped , so the sojourning Israel is understood as an Israel of God , rather than as the land of Israel that Moses ' people will subsequently ...
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 |