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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... tradition , a reinvented memory , and a projection of what Israel wished to see in Moses , or dreaded seeing in itself . Like unto Moses is a study of the meaning of Moses in the Bible . The story of Moses and the exodus contains the ...
... tradition , and the design and dicta of the One God , of whom Moses was the greatest prophet — and sometime scribe . Thus between the covers of the Bible we find not so much a member of the class literature , as a rival kind of ...
... tradition to grow outwardly , but also to recoup its development internally ; in this sense , the Bible is a tradition . I might add that the fundamentalist documentarian's picture of a blind redactor increasing the quotient of witness ...
... traditions and schools and voices are surely sources of the texts , and , in the somewhat meta- phorical sense ... tradition or " traceable line " through a chain of resemblance and allusion across different portions of the final ...
... traditional hero , a received hero , a legendary hero , and a culture - hero . But Moses is also an ironic or handicapped hero , because of the preeminence of God over any other nescient being in the biblical narrative . Before he ...
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 |