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.
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'A new voice from the Wilderness! By focusing on the theme of memory in the book of Numbers, Adriane Leveen has found an important key to a biblical book that gets less attention than Genesis or Exodus but is every bit as fascinating. Scholarly readers will find in this book a sophisticated attempt to apply the concept of collective memory to a biblical text, an approach that yields many insights into biblical literature and ritual. General readers, drawn into the text by Leveen's lively, literate and accessible writing, will find it an illuminating guide through the book of Numbers. Both kinds of readers will close Memory and Tradition with a much better appreciation of Numbers' politics and poetics, and of how it fits into the larger historical vision of the Five Books of Moses.' Steve Weitzman, Indiana University, Bloomington
'... 'memory' and 'tradition' are key factors in the editorial process that produced the book of Numbers. This is a readable volume which provides some interesting observations on the editorial strategies underlying one of the more neglected books in the HB.' Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
'Adriane Leveen's Memory and Tradition in the Book of Numbers is a sophisticated and often engaging treatment of what may well be the most neglected and yet the most haunting book of the Torah ... this book is a highly focused discussion of the literary structure of Numbers, of memory, and of the uses of memory in the Torah, and as such it is to be recommended not only to biblical scholars who deal with the politics of narrative structure and the shaping of tradition over time, but also to those interested in sociological and religious theories of memory and their interface with religious studies, politics, critical theory and psychology.' Religion
'... 'memory' and 'tradition' are key factors in the editorial process that produced the book of Numbers. This is a readable volume which provides some interesting observations on the editorial strategies underlying one of the more neglected books in the HB.' Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
'Adriane Leveen's Memory and Tradition in the Book of Numbers is a sophisticated and often engaging treatment of what may well be the most neglected and yet the most haunting book of the Torah ... this book is a highly focused discussion of the literary structure of Numbers, of memory, and of the uses of memory in the Torah, and as such it is to be recommended not only to biblical scholars who deal with the politics of narrative structure and the shaping of tradition over time, but also to those interested in sociological and religious theories of memory and their interface with religious studies, politics, critical theory and psychology.' Religion
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The book examines how the priestly editors of the book of Numbers created a narrative of the forty-year journey through the wilderness to achieve their agenda. The book also focuses on politics, collective memory, and transmission of tradition.
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Book of Numbers, The Use of Ritual Objects, Desert Bound, Second Temple, First Temple, Five Books of Moses, Israel Knohl, Baruch Levine, Mary Douglas, Inheriting the Land, Mount Hor, Korah the Levite, Holiness School, Richard Terdiman, Wilderness Period, Wilderness Camp Browse Sample Pages:
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