Book Club May 2020: Numbers
Having read the paragraph
“Content” in the Introduction to Numbers in the New Revised Standard
Version of the Bible, I am all excited at the promise of great stories to be
told.
First. Great characters:
Moses, Miriam, Aaron, Joshua, Caleb. (Dear Caleb; a favourite of mine.)
Second. Some of the best
known passages in the Bible: Balaam’s talking donkey and the oracles of Balaam;
the priestly benediction; the spies returning with a huge cluster of grapes;
the manna and the quails; the water from the rock; Miriam’s leprosy; the bronze
serpent that healed snakebite; the revolts of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram; the
magical budding of Aaron’s rod; the man executed for gathering sticks on the
sabbath; the daughters of Zelophehad; the apostasy of Baal-peor. And the
rituals for a woman suspected of adultery, for men and women taking a Nazirite
vow, for cleansing polution from contact with a corpse.
Gee Whiz!
Joyce Voysey
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