Pentateuch: Numbers

Contents: De la périphérie au centre : les livres du Lévitique et des Nombres dans le débat actuel sur le Pentateuque / Thomas Römer -- Die Bücher Levitikus und Numeri als Teile der Pentateuchkomposition / Erich Zenger, Christian Frevel -- La place du Lévitique et des Nombres dans la formation du Pentateuque / Félix García López -- Bis zur Grenze des Landes? : Num 27,12-23 und das Ende der Priesterschrift / Ed Noort -- Le problème de l'unité littéraire et de la spécificité théologique du livre des Nombres / Olivier Artus -- Das Heiligkeitsgesetz und die sakralen Ordnungen des Numeribuches im Horizont der Pentateuchredaktion / Reinhard Achenbach -- Israel's festival calendars in Leviticus 23, Numbers 28-29 and the formation of "priestly" literature / Christophe Nihan -- Das Buch Numeri in der heutigen Pentateuchdiskussion / Horst Seebass -- The Midianites in the formation of the book of Numbers / Thomas B. Dozeman -- Le système sacrificiel de P et la formation du Pentateuque / Alfred Marx -- Ritual rhetoric in the Pentateuch : the case of Leviticus 1-16 / James W. Watts -- Structure et théologie en Lv 1,1-3,17 / Didier Luciani -- Ritual purity and the construction of identity : the literary function of the laws of purity in the book of Leviticus / Hanna Liss -- Hühneropfer im Alten Israel : zum Verständnis von Lev 1,14 im Kontext der antiken Kulturgeschichte / Thomas Staubli -- Le Lévitique dans la nouvelle Biblia Hebraica (BHQ) : questions textuelles et théologiques sur les pratiques sacrificielles on Lv 1-7 / Innocent Himbaza -- Translation and writing in 4QLXXLeva̳ / Theo van der Louw -- The next generation : textual moves in Numbers 14,23 and related passages / Michaël N. van der Meer -- Partial repetition in sections of Numbers 4 and the translator / Lénart J. de Regt -- The books of Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers, and the macro-structural problem of the Pentateuch / Hendrik Jacob Koorevaar -- The literary unity of Numbers : nineteen atonement-centered diptychs as one key element / Thomas L. Brodie -- The conceptual coherence of Numbers 5,1-10,10 / Won W. Lee -- Kohärenz im Buch Numeri : eine Perspektive aus der Weltchronik Rudolfs von Ems / Ulrike Sals -- La représentation littéraire d'une réalité à venir : la terre promise dans les Nombres / Franc̦oise Mirguet -- Shaming Miriam, Moses' sister, in Num 12,1-16 : focus on the narrative's exposition in vv. 1-2 / Anthony Abela -- Nb 20,11 : Moïse en flagrant délit de "main levée"? / Jean-Pierre Sonnet -- Le serpent de Nb 21,4-9 et de Gn 3,1 : intertextualité et élaboration du sens / André Wénin -- Numeri und Chronik : nahe Verwandte / Hans-Peter Mathys -- Openness to the other inside and outside of Numbers / Mark A. Christian -- Quel horizon d'écriture pour Nb 14,11-25? : essai de sondage des soubassements de cette péricope / Vincent Sénéchal -- Le récit sacerdotal : une "histoire sans fin"? / Jean-Louis Ska -- Nb 27,12-23, la succession de Moïse et la place d'Éléazar dans le livre des Nombres / Dany Nocquet -- Leviticus in early modern Netherlands : Lapide and Grotius / Mark W. Elliott.

This commentary is a product of extended reflection on the problems associated with the origins, exegesis, and interpretation of the Pentateuch.

Contents: The arrangement of Numbers -- The genres of Numbers -- The sources of Numbers -- Numbers and history -- The theology of Numbers -- Later interpretation of Numbers.

Baruch A. Levine has written a masterful study of the first half of the Book of Numbers for the Anchor Bible Commentaries. The Book of Numbers - from the numbering or census of the people in the opening chapters - is a much-neglected part of the Torah, the five books of Moses, which constitutes the heart of Holy Scriptures for Jews, while also forming an integral part of the Bible for Christians

Contents: The organization of the community of the twelve tribes -- The organization of the Levites -- Various divine ordinances -- The offerings of the Israelite tribal representatives -- Further divine ordinances -- The departure from Sinai -- Disaffection of the people in the wilderness -- Miriam and Aaron against Moses -- Spying out the promised land -- Various appendices of a cultic-ritual nature -- The rebellions of Korah and of Dathan and Abiram -- The relationship of priests and Levites to the rest of the Israelites -- Preparation and use of a special water of purification -- Once again water from the rock -- Refusal of passage through Edom -- The death of Aaron -- The capture of Hormah -- The bronze serpent -- Camping-sites on the way -- The first victories east of the Jordan -- Balaam -- Apostasy to Moabite idol-worship -- Another census -- A precedent concerning daughters' rights of inheritance -- Intimation of the death of Moses -- Cultic calendar -- The binding nature of women's vows -- War of vengeance against the Midianites and the subsequent division of the booty -- The first distribution of territory east of the Jordan -- The stations of Israel's wanderings after the exodus from Egypt -- Directions for the future allocation of land west of the Jordan -- Levitical cities and cities of refuge -- Appendix on daughters' rights of inheritance.

Contents: Title -- Sources -- The priestly source -- Non-priestly source -- Structure -- Religious contribution -- The land -- The priests and the Levites -- Purity and holiness -- Historical value -- Contents -- The commentary -- The sojourn at Sinai (1:1--10:10) -- From Sinai to the plains of Moab (10:11--22:1) -- Preparations for entry into the land (22:2--36:13).

Ashley's study on the book of Numbers is part of The New International Commentary on the Old Testament. Like its companion series on the New Testament, this commentary devotes considerable care to achieving a balance between technical information and homiletic-devotional interpretation.

Contents: Preparation for journeying from Sinai (1:1--10:10) -- Journey from Sinai to Moab (10:11--21:35) -- End of the first generation opposite Jericho (22:1--25:18) -- Census of the new generation (26:1-65) -- Miscellaneous legislation; events prior to Moses' death (27:1--36:13).

Under the guidelines of the FOTL series, the primary task of this commentary is not to reconstruct the historical growth of the book of Numbers itself. In this commentary, the growth process is presupposed in principle, but referred to in specifics with restraint. The form-critical interpretation reveals the active involvement of many generations of Israelite narrators and writers in the ongoing adaptation of their most important ancient story, and their conceptualization of its significance for their own and for future generations.

Contents: The arrangement of Numbers -- The genres of Numbers -- The sources of Numbers -- Numbers and history -- The theology of Numbers -- Later interpretation of Numbers.

Contents: I. The book of Numbers in the context of comparative religion -- 1. Defilement -- 2. The intellectualist bias -- 3. Images, magic and monotheism -- 4. The history -- II. The politics of enclaves -- 1. A cultural typology -- 2. The enclave repeater mechanism -- 3. The fears of the enclave -- 4. Standard solutions -- 5. Moses as leader of an enclave -- 6. conclusion -- III. A priestly hierarchy -- 1. Anti-hierarchical bias -- 2. Hierarchical principles -- 3. Contrapuntal institutions -- 4. Contrapuntal thinking -- 5. Hierarchy's self-celebration -- 6. Kings and leaders in the Bible -- IV. The question of literary form -- 1. problems with the unity of numbers -- 2. Antique learning -- 3. Myth's spatial framework -- 4. Number's commentary on Genesis -- V. Twelve sections in the overall pattern -- 1. identifying the units of structure -- 2. Hebrew poetic structure -- 3. Exceptions to the rule -- 4. Beginnings and endings -- 5. Matching the paired sections -- 6. Numbers in a ring -- VI. The people of Israel numbered -- 1. Prologue -- 2. Three rebellions -- 3. The rod of Aaron -- 4. Marking the quarters -- 5. Political implications -- VII. The laws -- 1. The law sections -- 2. Purification -- 3. Other systems of defilement -- 4. Inadvertency -- VIII. Israel, the mystic bridge -- 1. The laws for women -- 2. The unfaithful wife -- 3. The water of purification -- 4. Israel's cup -- 5. In the days of her youth -- VIIII. Twelve tribes in marching order -- 1. Inclusion and exclusion -- 2. The twelve tribes -- 3. The sons of Levi -- 4. The hierarchical vision -- X. Jacob's prophecies: two story rungs -- 1. First story rung -- 2. Second story rung -- 3. The crises -- 4. Reuben, Simeon and Levi -- XI. Israel defiled, Miriam and her brothers -- 1. Miriam -- 2. Sister of Moses, queen of heaven -- 3. Simeon and Levi -- 4. Jacob and Esau -- 5. Flesh half-consumed -- XII. Balaam and Balak, a political satire -- 1. The story -- 2. Balaam's prophecies -- 3. Ezra/Nehemiah in factional perspective -- 4. Eliashib's point of view -- XIII. The land and the jubilee -- 1. The men of Manasseh -- 2. The jubilee -- 3. Peoples of the land -- 4. Nehemiah's limited jubilee -- 5. The inheritance of the people of Israel -- 6. The wilderness.

Contents: Origen's Homilies on Numbers -- Rufinus's preface -- Homily 1: Numbers 1:1-54 -- Homily 2: Numbers 2:1-34 -- Homily 3: Numbers 3:5-39 -- Homily 4: Numbers 4:1-49 -- Homily 5: Numbers 3:39-4:49 -- Homily 6: Numbers 11:16-25; 12:1-15 -- Homily 7: Numbers 12:1-15; 13:18-34; 14:1-8 -- Homily 9: Numbers 17:1-28 (LXX, Heb) = 16:36-17:13 (RSV) -- Homily 10: Numbers 18: 1-7 -- Homily 11: Numbers 18:8-32 -- Homily 12: Numbers 21:16-23 -- Homily 13: Numbers 21:24-35; 22:1-14 -- Homily 14: Numbers 22:15-28 -- Homily 15: Numbers 22:31-41; 223:1-10 -- Homily 16: Numbers 23:11-24 -- Homily 17: Numbers 23:25-30; 24:1-9 -- Homily 18: Numbers 24:10-19 -- Homily 19: Numbers 24:20-24 -- Homily 20: Numbers 25:1-10 -- Homily 21: Numbers 26 -- Homily 22: Numbers 27:1-23 -- Homily 23: Numbers 28:1-29:39 -- Homily 24: Numbers 31-32 -- Homily 25: Numbers 31:1-54 -- Homily 26: Numbers 31-32 -- Homily 27: Numbers 33:1-49 -- Homily 28: Numbers 34-35 -- Subject index -- Scripture index.

Contents: I. Introduction --
The nature of Biblical numbers --
II. The structure and syntax of Biblical numbers --
Old Testament --
New Testament --
III. The conventional use of numbers --
The functions of conventional numbers --
Problems relative to conventional numbers --
Summary --
IV. The rhetorical use of numbers --
The climatic use of numbers --
The idiomatic use of numbers --
Summary --
V. The symbolic use of numbers --
The origin of symbolic numbers --
The interpretation of symbolic numbers --
Summary --
VI. The mystical use of numbers --
Historical survey of the concept of mystical numbers --
VII. Summary and conclusions --
Conclusion --
VIII. Bibliography.