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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... according to the prac- tice of some more modern English versions . ) For several quotations— often where decidedly prosaic blocks or decidedly parallelistic verses are concerned the Revised Standard Version , or " RSV , " has been pre ...
... According to Blake , it was God who " in mysterious Sinai's awful cave / To Man the wondrous art of writing gave " ( Jerusalem , prol . ) . Both of my Toronto men- tors might have been present on the occasion in question : study in ...
... according to their armies . ( Exod : 6:20 , 26 ) Each Mosaic figure — traditional , received , exemplary , and institutional— derives from the text . The traditionality of the figure is attested to by the plurality of the texts . His ...
... according to all the law of Moses ; neither after him arose there any like him " ( 2 Kings 23:25 ) . The repetition of " none like him " doubles the king's uniqueness as " like unto Moses , " and aligns it with key assertions about the ...
... According to a parallelism in Hosea 8 : 4 , the people who have lost their faith in a Yahwist leadership either make a calf or a king ( cf. Exod . 32 : 1 with 1 Sam . 8 : 2-5 , 20 ) . In applying for a kingship , God argues , the nation ...
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 |