Numbers

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Numbers

• AS/HUMA 3810 6.0

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The Book of Israels kvetching

• ?????/bemidbar (in the wilderness) 2nd-40th
  years after the Exodus
• a seemingly miscellaneous hodgepodge of legal
  narrative materials
• Structure
• 11-1010 census mustering for march at Sinai
  (19 days)
• 1011-221 the wanderings centred at Kadesh (38
  years)
• 222-3613 in the plains of Moab/Transjordan
  (ca. 5 months)

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Selected Texts 1

• the suspected sotah 511-31
• the priestly blessing 622-27

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Selected Texts 2

• call to holy war 1035-36 (cf. 1 Sam 4)

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Selected Texts 3

• An amusing Rashi 114-6
• Moses Cushite wife 12
• The scouts the death of the exodus generation
  13-14
• Revolt of Korah ( Dathan and Abiram) 16
• The red heifer 19

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Selected Texts 4

• Death of Miriam (201)
• Water from the rock (202-13//Exod 171-7)
• Death of Aaron (2022-29)

Bacchiacca (Francesco Ubertini) ca. 1540-1545
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Selected Texts 5

• Sefer Bilam (The Book of Balaam) 222-2425
  (cf. 318b)

Rembrandt, Balaam and His Ass
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Selected Texts 6

• Baal Peor 25
• Daughters of Zelophehad 271-11 361-12
• Conclusion to Tetrateuch 3613