NUMBERS

Gordon J. Wenham

Sheffield Academic Press

Copyright © 1997 Sheffield Academic Press

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ISBN 1-85075-801-8

Contents

Abbreviations

Select List of Commentaries

Introduction

1. The Arrangement of Numbers

2. The Genres of Numbers

3. The Sources of Numbers

4. Numbers and History

5. The Theology of Numbers

6. Later Interpretation of Numbers

Index of References

Index of Authors

Abbreviations

AB Anchor Bible

ABD D.N. Freedman (ed.), Anchor Bible Dictionary

AnBib Analecta biblica

BARev Biblical Archaeology Review

Bib Biblica

BJS Brown Judaic Studies

BKAT Biblischer Kommentar: Altes Testament

CBC Cambridge Bible Commentary

CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly

HTR Harvard Theological Review

ICC International Critical Commentary

Int Interpretation

JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society

JNES Journal of Near Eastern Studies

JPS Jewish Publication Society

JSOT Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

JSOTSup Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series

JSS Journal of Semitic Studies

NCB New Century Bible

NICOT New International Commentary on the Old Testament

OTL Old Testament Library

OTS Oudtestamentische Studiën

SB Sources bibliques

TynBul Tyndale Bulletin

TOTC Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries

VT Vetus Testamentum

WBC Word Biblical Commentary

ZAW Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

Select List of Commentaries

Major scholarly commentaries include the following:

T.R. Ashley, The Book of Numbers (NICOT; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993). Detailed exegesis from a conservative perspective, but little discussion of introductory issues.

P.J. Budd, Numbers (WBC; Waco, TX: Word Books, 1984). A full treatment of source-and traditio-critical issues

E.W. Davies, Numbers (NCB; London: Marshall-Pickering; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995). A balanced thorough treatment of source-critical, historical and theological issues.

G.B. Gray, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Numbers (ICC; Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1903). The classic commentary on Numbers from the perspective of the documentary hypothesis. Still very useful.

B.A. Levine, Numbers 1–20 (AB, 4; New York: Doubleday, 1993). Like the commentaries of Budd and Gray it concentrates on critical problems.

J. Milgrom, Numbers (JPS Torah Commentary; Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1990). An encyclopedic, but readable, study of the world of Numbers by the acknowledged master of biblical ritual law.

M. Noth, Numbers (OTL; London: SCM Press, 1968). A lucid exposition using the methods of tradition history.

H. Seebass, Numeri (BKAT; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1993—). A very thorough critical German commentary, which will take years to complete. Fascicles 1 and 2 deal with Num. 10:11–15:41.

J. de Vaulx, Les Nombres (SB: Paris: Gabalda, 1972). Judicious in ...