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Memory and Tradition in the Book of Numbers

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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.

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ISBN: 9781107407831
Publication date: 4th October 2012
Author: Adriane (Stanford University, California) Leveen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 256 pages
Genres: Christianity
Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts
Social groups: religious groups and communities