Covenant & Conversation Numbers: The Wilderness Years

The book of Numbers - in Hebrew, Bemidbar, "In the Wilderness" - is a key text for our time. It is among the most searching, self-critical books in all of literature about what Nelson Mandela called "the long walk to freedom." Its message is that there is no shortcut to liberty. Numbers is not an easy book to read, nor is it an optimistic one. It is a sober warning set in the midst of a text - the Hebrew Bible - that remains the West's master narrative of hope.

The Mosaic books, especially ...