International conference proceedings, April 2011, Bochum.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contributions in English and German.
The book of numbers : formation, composition, and interpretation of a late part of the Torah : some introductory remarks / Christian Frevel -- Back to the future : the twofold priestly concept of history / Thomas Pola -- Egypt nostalgia in Exodus 14-Numbers 21 / Thomas Römer -- Numeri als eigene Komposition / Horst Seebass -- The priestly laws of numbers, the Holiness Legislation, and the Pentateuch / Christophe Nihan -- Ending with the high priest : the hierarchy of priests and Levites in the book of numbers / The spy story and the final redaction of the Hexateuch / Aaron Schart -- Complementary reading of the Torah in the priestly texts of numbers 15 / Reinhard Achenbach -- Source stratification, secondary additions, and the documentary hypothesis in the book of numbers : the case of numbers 17 / Joel S. Baden -- "Lo we perish" : a reading of numbers 17:27-20:29 / Adriane Leveen -- Die Verfehlung Moses und Aarons in Num 20,1-13* P / Herbert Specht -- Sihon und Og in Num 21,21ff.* und Dtn 2,24ff.* : ein Beitrag zur Entstehung des Buches Numeri / Ludwig Schmidt -- The balaam narrative in the Pentateuch/Hexateuch/Enneateuch / Jonathan Miles Robker -- Numbers 32 : The problem of the two and a half transjordanian : tribes and the final composition of the book of numbers / Olivier Artus -- The books of deuteronomy and numbers in One Torah : the book of numbers read in the horizon of the postexilic fortschreibung in the book of deuteronomy : new horizons in the interpretation of the Pentateuch / Eckart Otto -- Index of sources -- Index of authors