Angela Roskop Erisman is a scholar of the Hebrew Bible and author of The Wilderness Itineraries: Genre, Geography, and the Growth of Torah (1727), which won the Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise in 2014.

'In this masterful volume, Erisman demonstrates how crucial the wilderness narratives are for understanding the Pentateuch as a response to Israel and Judah's historical experience. Drawing on the best of documentary and supplementary approaches, she offers a distinctive account of the Pentateuch's development. Every page reveals fresh exegetical insights as various theoretical perspectives are combined with ease and elegance. It is not only a novel and compelling journey through the narratives of Exodus and Numbers, but a model for how to do work that is literarily sensitive and historically aware.' Nathan MacDonald, University of Cambridge

• 1. The journey begins: the sea; 2. Literature as politics: the exodus; 3. Your God reigns: the wilderness; 4. The sense of an ending: the land; 5. The rhetoric of fear: the priests; 6. Trusted in my household: Moses; Epilogue; Index.

Angela Roskop Erisman is a scholar of the Hebrew Bible and author of The Wilderness Itineraries: Genre, Geography, and the Growth of Torah (1727), which won the Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise in 2014.

'In this masterful volume, Erisman demonstrates how crucial the wilderness narratives are for understanding the Pentateuch as a response to Israel and Judah's historical experience. Drawing on the best of documentary and supplementary approaches, she offers a distinctive account of the Pentateuch's development. Every page reveals fresh exegetical insights as various theoretical perspectives are combined with ease and elegance. It is not only a novel and compelling journey through the narratives of Exodus and Numbers, but a model for how to do work that is literarily sensitive and historically aware.' Nathan MacDonald, University of Cambridge

• 1. The journey begins: the sea; 2. Literature as politics: the exodus; 3. Your God reigns: the wilderness; 4. The sense of an ending: the land; 5. The rhetoric of fear: the priests; 6. Trusted in my household: Moses; Epilogue; Index.

Angela Roskop Erisman is a scholar of the Hebrew Bible and author of The Wilderness Itineraries: Genre, Geography, and the Growth of Torah (1727), which won the Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise in 2014.

'In this masterful volume, Erisman demonstrates how crucial the wilderness narratives are for understanding the Pentateuch as a response to Israel and Judah's historical experience. Drawing on the best of documentary and supplementary approaches, she offers a distinctive account of the Pentateuch's development. Every page reveals fresh exegetical insights as various theoretical perspectives are combined with ease and elegance. It is not only a novel and compelling journey through the narratives of Exodus and Numbers, but a model for how to do work that is literarily sensitive and historically aware.' Nathan MacDonald, University of Cambridge

• 1. The journey begins: the sea; 2. Literature as politics: the exodus; 3. Your God reigns: the wilderness; 4. The sense of an ending: the land; 5. The rhetoric of fear: the priests; 6. Trusted in my household: Moses; Epilogue; Index.