Adriane Leveen

Memory and Tradition in the Book of Numbers

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines politics, collective memory, and transmission of tradition in the book of Numbers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9781107407831
• ISBN-10: 1107407834
• Artikelnr.: 36196746

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.