Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction: A Map of the Wilderness
1. The Figure in the Wilderness: Readings in the Book of Numbers
2. Trust and Suspicion: Approaches to a Holy Text that Invites Little Approach
3. “Fraught with Background”: Towards Ascriptive Realism and Figural Reading (Numbers 10–12)
4. “What Did You Go Out into the Wilderness to See?”: Theological Interpretation, the Eyes of the Heart, and Karl Barth’s Reading of Sloth (Numbers 13–14)
5. “It is the Text that Swallows Up the World”: The Eclipse of Numbers’ Narrative and the Literal Sense of Korah’s Rebellion (Numbers 15–16)
6. “The Rock was Christ”: Typology Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Numbers 20)
7. “‘Peace, Peace,’ when there is no Peace”: The Zeal of Readers in Defense and in Dissent (Numbers 25)
8. Blessing for an Unfinished Journey: On Reading Numbers as Christian Scripture (Numbers 6; 22–24; 33)
Bibliography
Indices