Abstract
Location influences/numbs the wilderness narrative, as well as its readers and readings. This chapter offers a postcolonial reading with islander twists in the interests of and out of loyalty to the wilderness-land and its first peoples, protesting the numbing affects in and of the book of Numbers. i am encouraged by the ways in which Numbers numbs the reading of its orientation: Numbers presents Israel as rebels against God and their leaders, yet continues to embrace and lead Israel along, not fully numbed. I engaged some of the ways in which Numbers numb readers and critics, but i cannot say that i have in the end numbed Numbers.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Postcolonial commentary and the Old Testament |
| Editors | Hemchand Gossai |
| Place of Publication | London, UK |
| Publisher | T&T Clark (International) |
| Chapter | 5 |
| Pages | 57-69 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780567680969, 9780567680990 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780567680952 |
| Publication status | Published - 2019 |