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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... Tables , and the Morality That Legislates 96 Part III . Moralia in Exodum 6. The Birth of the Life of Moses 133 21 A. The Birth of Moses , and the Divine Sponsorship 133 B. The Career of Moses , and the History of Israel from Joseph to ...
... tables , proclaiming to them , " I give you the fifteen— " : but one table drops and breaks , and Moses hastily emends , " —ten commandments . " This scene should be compared to my epi- graph ( for Part I ) from Kafka , which is ...
... tables the first time , it is Moses who writes on them the second . Moses thus prefigures the high priest Hilkiah , who recovered the Book of the Law from the repairs of the house of the Lord , the repairs suggesting that the priest had ...
... tables the words that were in the first tables , which thou brakest . . . . And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first ; and Moses rose up early in the morning , and went up unto mount Sinai , as the Lord had commanded him ...
... table , and note it in a book , that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever : That this is a rebellious people , lying children , children that will not hear the law of the Lord . ( Isa . 30 : 8-9 ) Whoever writes is exiled ...
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 |