Leviticus and Numbers

by Athalya Brenner University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Editor), Archie Chi Chung Lee (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781451426335
Publisher:	Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date:	02/01/2013
Series:	Texts & Contexts
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Archie Chi Chung Lee is professor of cultural and religious studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the co-editor of Genesis in the Texts@Contexts series (Fortress Press, 2008) and has contributed to journals and projects including the Global Bible Commentary (2004), Border Crossings: Cross-Cultural Hermeneutics (2007), and the Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity (2010).

Table of Contents

Other Books in the Series vii

Series Preface ix

Contributors xv

Abbreviations xix

Introduction Athalya Brenner 1

Part I Issues in Leviticus

1 Landed Interpretation Kristel A. Clayville 9

2 USDA or YHWH? Joseph Ryan Kelly 23

3 "Do Not Bare Your Heads and Do Not Rend Your Clothes" (Leviticus 10:6) Yael Shemesh 33

4 Slave Wives and Transgressive Unions in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Laws and Literature Helen R. Jacobus 55

5 The Notion of &cgpD;&cgpC;&cgpB; in the Book of Leviticus and Chinese Popular Religion Sonia K. Wong 77

6 Golden Do's and Don'ts Carole R. Fontaine 97

Part II Issues in Numbers

7 Bitter Waters (Numbers 5), Flood Waters (Genesis 6-9), and Some Theologies of Exile and Land Diana Lipton 121

8 From the Well in Midian to the Ba'al of Peor Yonina Dor 141

9 Numbers 25 and Beyond Anthony Rees 163

10 Indicting YHWH Nasili Vaka'uta 179

11 A Queer Womanist Midrashic Reading of Numbers 25:1-18 Wil Gafney 189

12 Assessing Female Inheritance of Land in Nigeria with the Daughters of Zelophehad Narrative (Numbers 27:1-11) Amadi Ahiamadu 199

13 Reading Iconoclastic Stipulations in Numbers 33:50-56 from the Pluralistic Religious Context of China Archie C. C. Lee 213

Bibliography 227