Numbers: Audio Lectures: 33 Lessons on History, Meaning, and Application
About this audiobook
Numbers spells out God's legal requirements for ancient Israel over three millennia ago. Do these strange laws and obscure, seemingly trifling details regarding everything from temple sacrifice to household mold have any bearing on us today? If the law was perfectly fulfilled in Jesus and believers are under a new covenant of grace, why bother studying arcane regulations that no longer apply? But they do apply. While their original contexts may have disappeared, the principles behind them are fraught with relevance. Roy Gane explores how, in our individualistic and selfish culture, Numbers restores to us a God's-eye vision that extends beyond ourselves to the church as a community.
Numbers: Audio Lectures features scholar and professor Roy Gane teaching through the book of Numbers in 33 engaging and challenging lessons. A companion to Gane's Leviticus, Numbers commentary in the NIV Application Commentary series, these lessons of restoration help us discover how to apply Scripture to our lives today.
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About the author
Roy Gane (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is professor of Hebrew Bible and ancient near eastern languages at the Theological Seminary of Andrews University. He is author of a number of scholarly articles and several books including God's Faulty Heroes (Review Herald, 1996-on the biblical book of Judges), Altar Call (Diadem, 1999-on the Israelite sanctuary services and their meaning for Christians), Ritual Dynamic Structure (Gorgias Press, 2004), Leviticus, Numbers (NIV Application Commentary; Zondervan, 2004), and Cult and Character: Purification Offerings, Day of Atonement, and Theodicy (Eisenbrauns, 2005), as well as the Leviticus portion of the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary on the Old Testament (forthcoming). Dr. Gane and his wife, Connie Clark Gane, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in Mesopotamian archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley, have one daughter, Sarah Elizabeth.
