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Redeeming relevance in the Book of Numbers : explorations in text and meaning / Rabbi Francis Nataf.
LIBRA BM645.R4 N385 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nataf, Francis.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Numbers--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Bible. Numbers.
- Redemption--Judaism.
- Redemption.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- 144 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Jerusalem ; New York : Urim Publications, [2014]
- Summary:
- "Continuing Rabbi Francis Nataf's innovative analysis of the Bible's five books, this volume focuses on some of the text's most perplexing stories in the Book of Numbers. It weaves them into discussions about the individual and the community, religious leadership and its abuse, and about communication and disappointment. Taking a new look at Judaism's most basic text, Rabbi Nataf reads the Bible in ways that make it more accessible and more exciting to study. The clarity of the insights in redeeming relevance in the Book of Numbers reveals new patterns in the biblical text"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Title-less Torah 19
- Chapter 2 The Spies-The Sin of the Wrong Trajectory 36
- Chapter 3 Korach and the Limits of Popular Government 47
- Chapter 4 The Book of Bil'am - of Subtlety and Subterfuge 64
- Chapter 5 tReuven and Gad - the Two Lost Tribes 87
- Chapter 6 The Daughters of Tzelofchad and the Elders of Menashe - Identity, Interests, and Differentiaton 107
- Chapter 7 Shimon and Levi - the Brothers Divided 125.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9789655241549
- 9655241548
- OCLC:
- 874557732
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