Leviticus and Numbers

<p>The Texts @ Contexts series gathers scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light. <b>Leviticus and Numbers </b>focuses attention on practices and ideals of behavior in community from mourning and diet to marriages licit and transgressive examining all of these from a variety of global perspectives and postcolonial and feminist methods. How do we deal with the apparent cultural distances between ourselves and these ancient writings; what can we learn from their visions of human dwelling on the earth?<p></p>Like other volumes in the Texts @ Contexts series these essays de-center the often homogeneous first-world orientation of much biblical scholarship and open up new possibilities for discovery.</p>