RT Article
T1 Numbering Israel: A Rhetorico-Structural Analysis of Numbers 1-4
JF Journal for the study of the Old Testament
VO 35
IS 2
SP 167
OP 185
A1 Lunn, Nicholas P.
LA English
YR 2010
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1777014506
AB This article presents a section by section rhetorico-structural analysis of the opening chapters of Numbers, which deal with the counting and grouping of the people of Israel. The analysis reveals the employment throughout of literary patterns of both linear and inverted forms. The findings of such an analysis point to a purposively and intricately designed textual organization in which the patterning serves definable literary and rhetorical purposes, notably the marking of closure, the underlining of salient information, and the preparation for subsequent information. These findings are consistent with other similar structural studies of Old Testament texts.
K1 Levites
K1 Parallelism
K1 Chiasmus
K1 literary structure
K1 tribes of Israel
K1 Census
K1 Numbers
DO 10.1177/0309089210386020