Like unto Moses : the constituting of an interruption /
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Author / Creator: | Nohrnberg, James, 1941- |
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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. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11105021 |
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." |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 396 pages) : illustrations. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-376) and indexes. |
ISBN: | 0585105766 9780585105765 025334090X 9786612079528 6612079525 |