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The Book of Numbers (from Greek Ἀριθμοί, Arithmoi, lit. ' numbers ' Biblical Hebrew : בְּמִדְבַּר , Bəmīḏbar , lit. ' In [the] desert ' ; Latin : Liber Numeri ) is the fourth book of the Hebrew Bible and the fourth of five books of the Jewish Torah . [ 1 ]
A number of contemporary novelists echoed this critical praise, including Nell Zink [14] and Francine Prose. [15] The Irish novelist Colm Tóibín described Book of Numbers as, "A hugely ambitious novel set in the high-tech world of now. It is a verbal high-wire act, daring in its tones and textures: clever, poetic, fast-moving, deeply playful ...
Robert Deane Pharr (1916–1989 [1] or 1992 [2]) was an African-American novelist. [3] [4]Pharr attended Saint Paul's Normal and Industrial School, Lincoln University, Virginia Union University and Fisk University, [2] but spent most of his career working as a waiter. [1]
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Joshua Aaron Cohen (born September 6, 1980) is an American novelist and story writer, best known for his works Witz (2010), Book of Numbers (2015), and Moving Kings (2017). ). Cohen won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Netanyahus (2
Numbers Rabbah (or Bamidbar Rabbah in Hebrew) is a religious text holy to classical Judaism. It is a midrash comprising a collection of ancient rabbinical homiletic interpretations of the Book of Numbers (Bamidbar in Hebrew). In the first printed edition of the work (Constantinople, 1512), it is called Bamidbar Sinai Rabbah.
The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings (1951) [1] is a reconstruction of the chronology of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah by Edwin R. Thiele. The book was originally his doctoral dissertation and is widely regarded as the definitive work on the chronology of Hebrew Kings . [ 2 ]
Numbers 31 is the 31st chapter of the Book of Numbers, the fourth book of the Pentateuch , the central part of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), a sacred text in Judaism and Christianity. Scholars such as Israel Knohl and Dennis T. Olson name this chapter the War against the Midianites. [1] [2]