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Adriane Leveen - Memory and Tradition in the Book of Numbers, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

Memory and Tradition in the Book of Numbers

Av Adriane Leveen

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In Memory and Tradition in the Book of Numbers, 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.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2007-10-01
  • Mått: 157 x 234 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 484 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 256
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521878692
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Adriane Leveen joined Stanford University in 2004 as Senior Lecturer in Hebrew Bible in the Department of Religious Studies. She has published in The Journal for the Study of the Old Testament and Prooftexts and she is a contributor to the forthcoming volumes: Women Remaking American Judaism (2007), Healing in the Jewish Imagination (2007), and The Torah: A Women's Commentary (2007).

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Review of the hardback: '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

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