Torah and the book of Numbers
By: edited by Christian Frevel, Thomas Pola and Aaron Schart
Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 2. Reihe -- 62; Forschungen zum Alten Testament -- 62.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9783161529474
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Congresses; Criticism, interpretation; Bible
Notes: International conference proceedings, April 2011, Bochum.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contributions in English and German.
Table of contents: title: The book of numbers : formation, composition, and interpretation of a late part of the Torah : some introductory remarks  -- Christian Frevel; title: Back to the future : the twofold priestly concept of history  -- Thomas Pola; title: Egypt nostalgia in Exodus 14-Numbers 21  -- Thomas Römer; title: Numeri als eigene Komposition  -- Horst Seebass; title: The priestly laws of numbers, the Holiness Legislation, and the Pentateuch  -- Christophe Nihan; title: Ending with the high priest : the hierarchy of priests and Levites in the book of numbers  -- Christian Frevel; title: The spy story and the final redaction of the Hexateuch  -- Aaron Schart; title: Complementary reading of the Torah in the priestly texts of numbers 15  -- Reinhard Achenbach; title: Source stratification, secondary additions, and the documentary hypothesis in the book of numbers : the case of numbers 17  -- Joel S. Baden; title: "Lo we perish" : a reading of numbers 17:27-20:29  -- Adriane Leveen; title: Die Verfehlung Moses und Aarons in Num 20,1-13* P  -- Herbert Specht; title: Sihon und Og in Num 21,21ff.* und Dtn 2,24ff.* : ein Beitrag zur Entstehung des Buches Numeri  -- Ludwig Schmidt; title: The balaam narrative in the Pentateuch/Hexateuch/Enneateuch  -- Jonathan Miles Robker; title: Numbers 32 : The problem of the two and a half transjordanian : tribes and the final composition of the book of numbers  -- Olivier Artus; title: The books of deuteronomy and numbers in One Torah : the book of numbers read in the horizon of the postexilic fortschreibung in the book of deuteronomy : new horizons in the interpretation of the Pentateuch -- Eckart Otto-- Index of sources-- Index of authors.