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Memory and tradition in the book of Numbers / Adriane Leveen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (x, 245 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780511355752
  • 0511355750
  • 1107183510
  • 9781107183513
  • 1281153532
  • 9781281153531
  • 9786611153533
  • 6611153535
  • 1139133209
  • 9781139133203
  • 0511355238
  • 9780511355233
  • 0511499124
  • 9780511499128
  • 0511354711
  • 9780511354717
  • 0511354134
  • 9780511354137
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Memory and tradition in the book of Numbers.DDC classification:
  • 222/.14066 22
LOC classification:
  • BS1265.2 .L48 2008eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Desert bound -- Weaving by design -- Priestly purposes -- Variations on a theme : shaping memory in the wilderness -- Crisis and commemoration : the use of ritual objects -- Falling in the wilderness : politics of death and burial -- Inheriting the land.
Summary: 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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)213370

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-234) and indexes.

Desert bound -- Weaving by design -- Priestly purposes -- Variations on a theme : shaping memory in the wilderness -- Crisis and commemoration : the use of ritual objects -- Falling in the wilderness : politics of death and burial -- Inheriting the land.

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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.

English.