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A Commentary on Numbers - Narrative, Ritual and Colonialism (Paperback)
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A Commentary on Numbers - Narrative, Ritual and Colonialism (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in the Biblical World
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This book provides a new reading of the biblical book of Numbers in
a commentary form. Mainstream readings have tended to see the book
as a haphazard junkyard of material that connects Genesis-Leviticus
with Deuteronomy (and Joshua), composed at a late stage in the
history of ancient Israel. By contrast, this book reads Numbers as
part of a wider work of Genesis-Joshua, a carefully crafted
programmatic settler colonial document for a new society in
Canaanite highlands in the late second millennium BCE that seeks to
replace pre-existing indigenous societies. In the context of the
tremendous influence that the biblical documents have had on the
world in the last 2,000-3,000 years, the book also offers pointers
towards reading these texts today. This volume is a fascinating
study of this text, and will be of interest not only to biblical
scholars, but to anyone with an interest in the history of the
ancient Levant, and colonisation and colonialism in the ancient
world more broadly.
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