Numbers : an introduction and study guide : the road to freedom /
Davies, Eryl W,
Numbers : an introduction and study guide : the road to freedom / [print] Numbers : the road to freedom by Eryl W. Davies. - London : Bloomsbury T&T Clark, (c)2017. - x, 85 pages ; 24 cm. - T & T Clark study guides to the Old Testament . - T & T Clark study guides to the Old Testament. .
First published 2015. Chapter 1: Introductory Issues Chapter 2: Numbers and Biblical Criticism Chapter 3: Themes in Numbers Chapter 4: Problematic Passages Chapter 5: Historical Value and Contemporary Relevance
Title -- Summary of Content -- Composition and Date -- Structure Reader-Response Criticism -- Feminist Biblical Criticism -- Postcolonial Criticism Land -- Purity and Holiness -- Rebellion The Census (chaps. 1 and 26) -- The Balaam Tradition (chaps. 22-24) -- The Wilderness Itinerary (33.1-49) Historical Value -- Contemporary Relevance
The book of Numbers may well be one of the least read and most neglected books in the entire Bible. However, the issues it raises--war, disease, survival, hunger, race relations--are among the perennial problems faced by nations across the centuries and across cultures. While individual passages within Numbers may reflect a questionable sense of morality. Davies demonstrates that the book, when viewed in its totality, encompasses a number of important theological themes which recur throughout the Old Testament: the interplay of forgiveness and judgment, and of sin and punishment, and the need to trust in the power of God rather than human might. Davies provides a lucid and readable account of the composition and date of Numbers, and the various attempts that have been made to establish a coherent and meaningful structure to its arrangement. He also considers how the application of reader-response criticism, feminist criticism, and postcolonial criticism have contributed to our understanding of selected passages in the book. The volume contains a detailed consideration of three theological themes that occupy much of the content of Numbers, namely, land, purity and holiness, and rebellion; it also provides a balanced discussion of some of the book's more problematic passages. The concluding chapter considers the contentious issue of the historicity of the book of Numbers in the light of recent discussions concerning the historical value of the Old Testament.
9780567671011
Bible.--Numbers--Criticism and interpretation.
Bible.--Numbers--Commentaries.
BS1265.D255.N863 2017 BS1265
Numbers : an introduction and study guide : the road to freedom / [print] Numbers : the road to freedom by Eryl W. Davies. - London : Bloomsbury T&T Clark, (c)2017. - x, 85 pages ; 24 cm. - T & T Clark study guides to the Old Testament . - T & T Clark study guides to the Old Testament. .
First published 2015. Chapter 1: Introductory Issues Chapter 2: Numbers and Biblical Criticism Chapter 3: Themes in Numbers Chapter 4: Problematic Passages Chapter 5: Historical Value and Contemporary Relevance
Title -- Summary of Content -- Composition and Date -- Structure Reader-Response Criticism -- Feminist Biblical Criticism -- Postcolonial Criticism Land -- Purity and Holiness -- Rebellion The Census (chaps. 1 and 26) -- The Balaam Tradition (chaps. 22-24) -- The Wilderness Itinerary (33.1-49) Historical Value -- Contemporary Relevance
The book of Numbers may well be one of the least read and most neglected books in the entire Bible. However, the issues it raises--war, disease, survival, hunger, race relations--are among the perennial problems faced by nations across the centuries and across cultures. While individual passages within Numbers may reflect a questionable sense of morality. Davies demonstrates that the book, when viewed in its totality, encompasses a number of important theological themes which recur throughout the Old Testament: the interplay of forgiveness and judgment, and of sin and punishment, and the need to trust in the power of God rather than human might. Davies provides a lucid and readable account of the composition and date of Numbers, and the various attempts that have been made to establish a coherent and meaningful structure to its arrangement. He also considers how the application of reader-response criticism, feminist criticism, and postcolonial criticism have contributed to our understanding of selected passages in the book. The volume contains a detailed consideration of three theological themes that occupy much of the content of Numbers, namely, land, purity and holiness, and rebellion; it also provides a balanced discussion of some of the book's more problematic passages. The concluding chapter considers the contentious issue of the historicity of the book of Numbers in the light of recent discussions concerning the historical value of the Old Testament.
9780567671011
Bible.--Numbers--Criticism and interpretation.
Bible.--Numbers--Commentaries.
BS1265.D255.N863 2017 BS1265