In <strong>Memory and Tradition in the Book of Numbers</strong> Adriane Leveen offers arereading of the fourth book of Moses. Leveen examines how the editors of... » 

In Memory and Tradition in the Book of Numbers Adriane Leveen offers arereading of the fourth book of Moses. Leveen examines how the editors ofNumbers created a narrative of the fortyyear journey through the wilderness tocontrol understanding of the past and influence attitudes in the future. Thebook explores politics collective memory and the strategies used by itspriestly editors to convince the children of Israel to accept priestly rule.Leveen considers the dyanmics of the transmission of tradition memory andvalues in an atmosphere of crisis as a generation witnessed its parents die inthe wilderness yet chose to live in the promised land in fulfillment of Godsvision. «