| Description |
xix, 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Indiana studies in biblical literature |
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Indiana studies in biblical literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-376) and indexes. |
| Contents |
pt. I. The Canonization of Moses -- The Face of Moses -- "The Voice of the Words": The Moses of Deuteronomy -- pt. II. The Text of the Law -- The Broken Law-Book -- The Book of the Covenant -- The Two Tables, and the Morality That Legislates -- pt. III. Moralia in Exodum -- The Birth of the Life of Moses -- Sojourner in Midian -- Delivering Justice: The Prehistory of Mosaic Intervention -- "Thus I Am to Be Remembered": Sinai and the Name -- Prophet unto Pharaoh -- The Burden of Egypt -- The Genesis of the Exodus -- The Creation of Israel (I): The Exodus and the Numbering of Israel -- The Creation of Israel (II): The Exodus and the "Visiting" of Israel -- pt. IV. Allegories of Scripture -- "Like unto Moses": The Text of History -- Like unto Aaron: The Golden Calf and the History of the Priestly Revelation to Israel -- Supplementary Originals. |
| 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. |
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Moses (Biblical leader)
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Bible. Deuteronomy -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Bible as literature.
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Moses (Biblical leader) (OCoLC)fst00036088
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Bible. Deuteronomy. (OCoLC)fst01808024
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Bible as literature. (OCoLC)fst00831228
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Mose.
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Mose, Biblische Person. (DE-588)118641190
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| ISBN |
025334090X (alk. paper) |
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9780253340900 (alk. paper) |
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