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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... seem to divide material that has been united — again , whether the material has been joined by the scholars or conflated by ... seems obvious that within the confines of the Bible we must define the story - text , like the myth in Levi ...
... seems personally to constitute it . Part II presents a two - part study of Moses ' legislating and " booking " activity ( chapters 3 and 4 ) ; this is followed by a supplementary chapter ( 5 ) on the content of the Decalogue in relation ...
... seems meant to escape the hostile onset of another party whose partisans shout Eli and apparently identify themselves with the national dog of Great Britain ! Gilgal perhaps it was not , but this was the occasion — at a party given by a ...
... seems less exportable than the heroes of romance — an Odyssean hero in Aristophanes , a Byronic hero in a Bronte novel , the shell of the Byronic hero in Conrad . 1 Like the biblical patriarchs , Moses brings with him a specifically ...
... seems to have a similar relation to the priesthood of Aaron . Moses is a culture - hero par excellence , since it is in and through him that Israel gets its cult . But Moses is also distinct from his priestly adjunct , and his own ...
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 |