Download or read book The Book of Numbers: A Critique of Genesis written by Calum Carmichael and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work Calum Carmichael—a legal scholar who applies a literary approach to the study of the Bible—shows how each law and each narrative in Numbers, the least researched book in the Pentateuch, responds to problems arising in narrative incidents in Genesis. The book continues Carmichael’s process of demonstrating how every law in the Pentateuch is a response to a problem arising in a biblical narrative, not to an inferred societal situation.