Numbers: Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching - Hardcover

Book 40 of 43: Interpretation: A Bible Commentary

Dennis T. OLSON

 
9780804231046: Numbers: Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0804231044 ISBN 13: 9780804231046
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press, 1996

Synopsis

Numbers chronicles a community faced with many competing interests, groups, and issues, endeavoring to define itself and its mission in the world. Dennis Olsen offers readers a comprehensive interpretation of this often overlooked book. He provides a thoroughly contemporary reading of Numbers that enlightens the modern church as it navigates the contemporary wilderness of pluralism, competing voices, and and shifting foundations.

Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching is a distinctive resource for those who interpret the Bible in the church. Planned and written specifically for teaching and preaching needs, this critically acclaimed biblical commentary is a major contribution to scholarship and ministry.

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About the Author

Dennis T. Olsen is Charles T. Haley Professor of Old Testament Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. His published works include Deuteronomy and the Death of Moses, A Theological Reading and Pentateuchal Narratives.

From the Back Cover

The book of Numbers is the story of the people of Israel in the wilderness as they departed from slavery in Egypt to the freedom of the promised land of Canaan. It contains a variety of materials relating to this transition from the old generation of Israel to the new, including stories and laws, census lists, instructions for worship, reports of military battles, and accounts of legal disputes. Numbers chronicles a community faced with many competing interests, groups, and issues, endeavoring to define itself and its mission in the world. Dennis Olson offers readers a comprehensive interpretation of this often overlooked book. He provides a thoroughly contemporary reading of Numbers that enlightens the modern church as it navigates the contemporary wilderness of pluralism, competing voices, and shifting foundations in the journey toward the twenty-first century.

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Publisher
Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date
1996
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0804231044
ISBN 13 
9780804231046
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
208

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