Memory and Tradition in the Book of Numbers

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-107-40783-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 249 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 421 g

In Memory and Tradition in the Book of Numbers, first published in 2008, Adriane Leveen offers a rereading of the fourth book of Moses. Leveen examines how the editors of Numbers created a narrative of the forty-year journey through the wilderness to control understanding of the past and influence attitudes in the future. The book explores politics, collective memory and the strategies used by its priestly editors to convince the children of Israel to accept priestly rule. Leveen considers the dynamics of the transmission of tradition, memory and values in an atmosphere of crisis as a generation witnessed its parents die in the wilderness yet chose to live in the promised land in fulfilment of God's vision.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leveen, Adriane

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Desert bound; 2. Weaving by design; 3. Priestly purposes; 4. Variations on a theme: shaping memory in the wilderness; 5. Crisis and commemoration: the use of ritual objects; 6. Falling in the wilderness: politics of death and burial; 7. Inheriting the land.