TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rees,Anthony
TI  - [Re]reading again: a mosaic reading of Numbers 25 
T2  - Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies
SN  - 9780567554369
AV  - BS1265.R328.R447 2015 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London, UK, New York, New York, USA
PB  - Bloomsbury T and T Clark
KW  - Bible
KW  - Numbers, XXV
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Charles Sturt University School of Theology, 2013; Part I; Part II; 1 (pages 178-185) and indexes; 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; 2
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