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eBook The International Critical Commentary (ICC): NUMBERS
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The International Critical Commentary (ICC): NUMBERS

Author:  GEORGE BUCHANAN Gray
Publisher:  Varda Books
Published:  2004
Language:  English
Pages:   541
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About the Book

A major work of interpretation, which served--according to Baruch Levin's own words--as “anchor and compass” for his Anchor Bible commentary on Numbers....

About the Book

About the Author

GEORGE BUCHANAN Gray ---

Congregational clergyman and Biblical scholar 1865-1922; a friend of S.R.Driver and his co-author on several projects.



 

Contents

CONTENTS

ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

PRINCIPAL ABBREVIATIONS EMPLOYED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv

INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi

§ 1. Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi

§ 2. Scene and Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxii

§ 3, 4. Connection with preceding and following Books:

Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii

§ 5. Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvi

§ 6–13. Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix

§ 14. Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxix

§ 15, 16. The historical Value of Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xlii

§ 17. Numbers and the Religion of Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xlvii

COMMENTARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

SOME LONGER OR DETACHED NOTES—

The Antiquity of P's Lists of Names . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 7, 135, 136

The Numbers of the Israelites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–15

The Camp in the Wilderness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16–18

The Levites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21–25, 26

Ordeals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43–48

Nazirites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56–60

Abstinence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62, 63

Treatment of Hair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65, 69

ë øáã . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122, 123

Holiness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209–211

Budding Sticks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Firstfruits: úéùàø and íéøåë¾ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225–229

Priestly Dues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236–241

Defilement by the Dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241–248

The Personification of Nations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265, 266, 268

Early monumental References to Edom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

The Cult of Serpents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275, 276

Hebrew popular Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288, 289, 299, 300

Use of the Divine Names in c. 22–24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310–312

Origin and Motive of the Story of Balaam . . . . . . . . . . . 314–322

Power of a Curse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327, 328

Differences between the Festivals of earlier and later

Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404–407

INDEX—

I. English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479–486

II. Hebrew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487–489

MAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Facing Title-page


Reviews

Gray's commentary on the Book of Numbers is amazing: many of his insights still hold true today, i.e. nearly a century after he produced his great work!

Rabbi Dr. Michael Samuel
Tri-city Jewish Center


 

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