An analysis of pentateuchal laws pertaining to women either born or married into priestly and levitical families in ancient Israel.

This paper addresses the compositional history of the story of the apportionment of the Transjordan to the Reubenites and Gadites in Numbers 32. After a detailed study of the narrative difficulties within this chapter, it is argued that Numbers 32 contains two independent stories and a post-compilational insertion. Each of the two stories is then…[Read more]