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100	1		_aDavies, Eryl W, _e1
245	1	0	_aNumbers : _ban introduction and study guide : the road to freedom / _cby Eryl W. Davies. _hPR
246	1	4	_aNumbers : _bthe road to freedom
260			_aLondon : _bBloomsbury T&T Clark, _c(c)2017.
300			_ax, 85 pages ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aT & T Clark study guides to the Old Testament
500			_aFirst published 2015.
500			_aChapter 1: Introductory Issues
505	0	0	_aTitle -- _tSummary of Content -- _tComposition and Date -- _tStructure
500			_aChapter 2: Numbers and Biblical Criticism
505	0	0	_aReader-Response Criticism -- _tFeminist Biblical Criticism -- _tPostcolonial Criticism
500			_aChapter 3: Themes in Numbers
505	0	0	_aLand -- _tPurity and Holiness -- _tRebellion
500			_aChapter 4: Problematic Passages
505	0	0	_aThe Census (chaps. 1 and 26) -- _tThe Balaam Tradition (chaps. 22-24) -- _tThe Wilderness Itinerary (33.1-49)
500			_aChapter 5: Historical Value and Contemporary Relevance
505	0	0	_aHistorical Value -- _tContemporary Relevance
504			_a1 and indexes.
520	3		_aThe 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.
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630	0	0	_aBible. _pNumbers _xCriticism and interpretation.
630	0	0	_aBible. _pNumbers _vCommentaries.
830		0	_aT & T Clark study guides to the Old Testament.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell