Memory and Tradition in the Book of Numbers

ISBN-13: 9780521878692 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 256 str.

Adriane Leveen

Opis

The book examines the ways in which 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. The book also focuses on the tragic dimension of the long journey and the transmission of tradition, memory, and values that occurs in such an atmosphere of crisis.

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: '… Leveen's work deserves praise … because it engages one's critical faculties throughout … [She] captures well contemporary changes in ways of reading biblical literature and skilfully applies them in enhancing our understanding of a truly remarkable body of material, the book of Numbers.' The Journal of AJS Review

Spis treści

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.