Numbering Israel: A Rhetorico-Structural Analysis of Numbers 1-4

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...

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Autor principal: Lunn, Nicholas P. (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Verificar disponibilidad: HBZ Gateway
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publicado: 2010
En: Journal for the study of the Old Testament
Año: 2010, Volumen: 35, Número: 2, Páginas: 167-185
Otras palabras clave:B Numbers
B Levites
B Censo
B Parallelism
B tribes of Israel
B Quiasmo
B literary structure
Acceso en línea: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Parallel Edition:No electrónico
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Sumario: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.
ISSN:1476-6728
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the Old Testament
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0309089210386020