| Leviticus and Numbers: Texts @ Contexts series Contributor(s): Brenner, Athalya (Editor), Lee, Archie Chi Chung (Editor) |
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ISBN: 080069936X ISBN-13: 9780800699369 Publisher: Fortress Press OUR PRICE: $44.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - Old Testament - Religion | Biblical Studies - Exegesis & Hermeneutics |
| Series: Texts @ Contexts |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.4" W x 9.1" (1.25 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Texts @ Contexts series gathers scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light. Leviticus and Numbers focuses attention on practices and ideals of behavior in community, from mourning and diet to marriages licit and transgressive, examining all of these from a variety of global perspectives and postcolonial and feminist methods. How do we deal with the apparent cultural distances between ourselves and these ancient writings; what can we learn from their visions of human dwelling on the earth? Like other volumes in the Texts @ Contexts series, these essays de-center the often homogeneous first-world orientation of much biblical scholarship and open up new possibilities for discovery. |