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ISBN: | 9780511355752 0511355750 9780521878692 1107183510 9781107183513 1281153532 9781281153531 9786611153533 6611153535 1139133209 9781139133203 0511355238 9780511355233 0511499124 9780511499128 0511354711 9780511354717 0511354134 9780511354137
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-234) and indexes. English. Print version record.
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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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Other form: | Print version: Leveen, Adriane (Adriane B.). Memory and tradition in the book of Numbers. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 9780521878692 0521878691
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