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[Re]reading again : a mosaic reading of Numbers 25 / Anthony Rees. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: 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
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780567554369
  • 0567554368
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BS1265.52.R474 2015
  • BS1265.52.R328.R474 2015
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Contents:
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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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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