Like unto Moses : the constituting of an interruption /

Like unto Moses : the constituting of an interruption /

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Author / Creator:	Nohrnberg, James, 1941-
Imprint:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1995.
Description:	1 online resource (xix, 396 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Indiana studies in biblical literature Indiana studies in biblical literature.
Subject:	Moses -- (Biblical leader) Moses -- (Biblical leader) Bible. -- Deuteronomy -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible. -- Deuteronomy. Bible as literature. Bible as literature. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11105021

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ISBN:	0585105766 9780585105765 025334090X 9786612079528 6612079525
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-376) and indexes. English. Print version record.
Summary:	This book is divided into four parts. The first two parts treat Moses and his life as an ideological composite. Part I, "The Canonization of Moses," concerns this construct as Moses personally seems to constitute it. Part II, "The Text of the Law," presents a two-part study of Moses' legislating and "booking" activity, followed by an account of the decalogue in relation to narratives about sins and crimes within the covenanted society. Part III, "Moralia in Exodum," contains nine chapters of homiletic commentary on the major narrative. Here the stories of Moses and the exodus are treated in relation to each other, in relation to proto-Mosaic society, and in relation to the theme of the creation of Israel. The remainder of the book, "Allegories of Scripture," treats the story of Moses and the exodus in relation to the latter-day history of the Israelite state. This part of the book proposes relations between the exodus narrative and the histories of sovereign and priestly Israel.
Other form:	Print version: Nohrnberg, James, 1941- Like unto Moses. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1995 025334090X

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Summary:	<p>"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<p>"LIKE UNTO MOSES proposes a series of challenging perspectives on the<br>process of canon-formation in the Bible. James Nohrnberg's ability to<br>trace connections among different elements of the biblical corpus is<br>unflaggingly resourceful, sometimes provocative, and often deeply<br>instructive." Robert Alter<p>..". an insightful study of the traditions of Moses in the Bible." Choice<p>"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<p>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."
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xix, 396 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-376) and indexes.
ISBN:	0585105766 9780585105765 025334090X 9786612079528 6612079525