Like Unto Moses: The Constituting of an InterruptionIndiana University Press, 22. mai 1995 - 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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... ( Deut . 24 : 1 , 3 , with Isa . 50 : 1 ) . An earlier prophet 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 ...
... ( Deut . 34 : 6 ) . That is , insofar as Moses is merely the vehicle of God's will to speak , there is no burial place for Moses , since it is only the divinely commissioned words that abide ; they make Moses present to us , in lieu of ...
... ( Deut . 34:10 ) ; and yet we overhear Moses himself devoutly wishing that all the Lord's people might become prophets ( Num . 11:29 ) . In such texts historicity is lost between the foreconceit of Moses ' uniqueness and the back ...
... ( Deut . 34 : 6 ) , at the terminus of the gospel of national salvation he has preached throughout the preceding text . " The word , " this Moses has told Israel , " is very near you " ( Deut . 30:14 , RSV ) . ii ... when you had grown ...
... ( Deut . 34:10 ) . Yet the Moses of Moab in Deuteronomy does not know God face to face so much as refer to his once having done so , when he was the former Moses of Sinai in Exodus ( Deut . 4 : 5 ) . By the time of Deuteronomy , he is not ...
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 |