[Re]reading again : a mosaic reading of Numbers 25 / Anthony Rees. [print]
Material type: TextSeries: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 589. | Playing the texts ; 19. | T & T Clark library of biblical studiesPublication details: London, UK ; New York, New York, USA : Bloomsbury T and T Clark, (c)2015.Description: x, 191 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
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- 9780567554369
- BS1265.R328.R447 2015
- BS1265
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Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Charles Sturt University School of Theology, 2013.
Part I
Part II
Introduction -- 1. Setting the scene: a shocking invitation, the end, or a new beginning -- 2. Overview.
A translation of Numbers 25
Chapter 1 -- 1. Initial Explorations -- 2. A survey of historical readings: Philo, Josephus, Origen, Talmud, Rashi, The Samaritan Chronicle -- 3. Postlude.
Chapter 2 -- 1. Introduction: Jean Calvin, Divergence -- 2. Early critical controversies: C. F. Keil and Franz Delitzsch, George Buchanan Gray, Martin Noth, Philip Budd, Jacob Milgrom, Baruch Levine.
Chapter 3 -- 1. Structured Outline -- 2. Reading Numbers 25 Intertextually: An historically oriented reading: Yahweh's anger, a sudden change, man of Zeal and the aftermath, a plague, Yahweh's response, a royal affair, retribution -- 3. Pro/retrojected themes-the Canonical trajectory of Number 25: external threats, leadership, the new priesthood, the Moabite/Midianite problem, Psalm 106:28-31 and Numbers 25 -- 4. Conclusion.
Chapter 4: Narrative explorations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Beginning and ending-establishing parameters: beginning, ending -- 3. Spatiality: Shittim, the tent of meeting, Zimri's tent, Peor -- 4. Manipulation of time -- 5. The narrator -- 6. Plot: narrative plot, plotting ideology -- 7. Characters: Moses, Phinehas, Zimri, Cozbi, Yahweh -- 8. Conclusion.
Chapter 5: A feminist reading -- 1. Introduction: turning to the text, "whoring" in the prophets, a shared experience, sons and daughters -- 2. In memoriam-Cozbi, daughter of Zur: Cozbi's name, familial matters, stepping back, Cozbi the culprit, the hero emerges, renaming Cozbi.
Chapter 6: A postcolonial reading -- 1. A short introduction to postcolonial theory: Orientalism and essentialism, essentialism in the scriptural narrative, ambivalence -- 2. The Bible and postcolonial interpretation: the Bible and colonialism, voices from the margin -- 3. Numbers 25 and beyond-Phinehas and other detestable practices: beginning with Ezra, a cross-textual and the reading "I", abuse of Aboriginal women in Australia, Cozbi-murder and rape in Number 25, back to today-rape the women-kill the babies, kill the babies-back to the Hebrew Bible, castrate and kill the men-Australia, unmanned men-the Hebrew Bible -- 4. Conclusion.
Conclusion -- 1. Looking to the end -- 2. To what end? The unfinished business of Bible Studies.
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