TY - BOOK AU - Goldingay,John TI - Numbers and Deuteronomy for everyone T2 - Old Testament for everyone SN - 9780664233778 (alk. paper) AV - BS1265.53 .G65 2010 U1 - 222/.14077 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Louisville, Ky. PB - Westminster John Knox Press KW - Bible KW - O.T KW - Numbers KW - Commentaries KW - Deuteronomy N1 - NUMBERS -- 1:1-2:34 Finding yourself in your family story -- 3:1-5:4 God's claim on Levi -- 5:5-31 Breaking faith -- 6:1-27 The Lord bless you and keep you -- 7:1-8:4 Provision for the sanctuary -- 8:5-9:14 God's flexibility -- 9:15-10:36 The journey actually begins -- 11:1-35 On missing garlic -- 12:1-15 Miriam the prophet, Aaron the priest, Moses the teacher -- 13:1-14:38 A spy story -- 14:39-15:41 The intentional and unintentional -- 16:1-17:13 Dealing with ambition -- 18:1-19:22 Provision and purification -- 20:1-13 One fatal mistake -- 20:14-21:3 Two very different attitudes to war -- 21:4-35 Snakes, and progress, and another attitude to war -- 22:1-23:4 A story about several asses -- 23:5-24 God doesn't go back on a promise -- 23:25-24:25 Beautify tents, Jacob -- 25:1-26:51 How it all goes wrong (again) -- 26:52-27:11 Five pushy women -- 27:12-23 On appointing a new leader -- 28:1-29:40 Eating with God -- 30:1-16 Negotiations and love songs -- 31:1-34 Unfinished business -- 32:1-42 On mutual support -- 33:1-34:29 Land, promises, and politics -- 35:1-36:13 Ensuring justice -- DEUTERONOMY -- 1:1-45 Moses begins his last sermon -- 1:46-3:29 No, but... -- 4:1-49 The attraction of images -- 5:1-15 Not with our parents -- 5:16-33 If only... -- 6:1-25 Listen, Israel -- 7:1-6 On killing enemies -- 7:7-15 On election -- 7:16-9:3 Little by little -- 9:4-10:22 You don't deserve it -- 11:1-32 It never rains in Southern California -- 12:1-32 On not following your instincts -- 13:1-18 False prophets -- 14:1-29 You are what you eat -- 15:1-18 Helping people get back on their feet -- 15:19-16:17 The rhythm of pilgrimage -- 16:18-17:13 Justice and only justice (about faithfulness) -- 17:14-18:22 Kings, priests, Levites, prophets -- 19:1-20:20 How to make war (or how to make war impractical) -- 21:1-23 Murder desecrates the land -- 22:1-12 On keeping things separate -- 22:13-30 Sex in the city -- 23:1-25 Attitudes to Egyptians (and others) -- 24:1-22 On sacred inefficiency -- 25:1-19 Maintaining the family name -- 26:1-19 A wandering Aramean has become a great nation -- 27:1-28:68 Curses and blessings and curses -- 29:1-30:20 The mystery of obedience and disobedience -- 31:1-32:47 Moses' last song -- 32:48-34:12 On dying outside the promised land ER -