Korte review in: The Expository Times 2001 112: 280
Korte review
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The book of
Numbers is hardly the most popular of the books of the Old Testament, but it is
nevertheless important. Baruch A. Levine completes his Anchor Bible commentary
with Numbers 21-36 (Doubleday, 2000, $45.00, pp. xxi + 614, ISBN
0-385-41256-8). Levine appears to cover all the relevant issues at tremendous depth.
The discussions of archaeological and other evidence are extensive, and
particular questions are followed up with great diligence (cf. the lengthy discussion
of the Balaam poems, including an account
of the inscriptions from Deir ’Alla, given in transcription and translation
with detailed notes, or the account of the ’towns of asylum’ and the treatment
of homicide). This is a major commentary on the book, though chiefly, I suspect,
of interest to scholars.
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