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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... tion it was the Argo in name only — yet it was no less the Argo for all that . Regarding citations : the Bible , Jewish and Christian , is quoted in English translations , from the " AV , " or Authorized Version ( = King James Version ) ...
... tion God and Man in the Old Testament : The Old Testament Short Story in Literary Focus ( Almond Press , 1981 ) . My ideas about Mosaic texts went back to graduate school pieces on Piers Plowman , begun under Derek Pearsall in 1963-64 ...
... 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 : 9 ) . But an Israel that had received ...
... tion of what had happened in his own prior existence , and in the prior existence of the wilderness Israel.6 Whether or not the levitical Yahwists were once priests in Egypt ( since some of the Levites have Egyptian names , and since ...
... tion and a type for Levitical preaching activity . Since its Moses is relating the exodus tradition to the future , the discourse of Deuteronomy is some- thing of an " art , " both an art of preaching the Israelite kerygma and an art of ...
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 |