Adriane Leveen

Memory and Tradition in the Book of Numbers (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511352973
• Artikelnr.: 38204008

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Desert bound
2. Weaving by design
3. Priestly purposes
4. Variations on a theme: shaping memory in the wilderness
5. Crisis and commemoration: the use of ritual objects
6. Falling in the wilderness: politics of death and burial
7. Inheriting the land.