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Introductions

Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly Dictionary of the Old Testament: PentateuchT. Desmond Alexander & David W. Baker, eds. Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch. Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2010. ISBN: 9780830867370. pp.800. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount on new subscriptions using this link]
On-line Resource Robert Wheler Bush [1820-1908], A Popular Introduction to the Pentateuch. London: The Religious Tract Society, n.d. Hbk. pp.187. View in PDF format pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
Article in Journal or Book Tim Gorringe, "Numbers 13-14," The Expository Times 117 (2006): 182-184. [Abstact]

Commentaries

Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly Ashley: The Book of NumbersTimothy R. Ashley, The Book of Numbers. The New International Commentary on the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993. Hbk. ISBN: 9781467422932. pp.667. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount on new subscriptions using this link]
Book or monograph Bellinger: Leviticus, NumbersW H. Bellinger, Jr., Leviticus, Numbers. New International Biblical Commentary. Peabody: MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2001. Pbk. ISBN: 1565632133. pp.370.
Book or monograph Brown: The Message of NumbersRaymond Brown, The Message of Numbers. Bible Speaks Today. Downers Grove, IL / Leicester: InterVarsity Press, 2002. Pbk. ISBN: 0830824286. pp.288.
Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly Phillip J. Budd, Numbers. Word Biblical Commentary, Vol. 5Phillip J. Budd, Numbers. Word Biblical Commentary, Vol. 5. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2018. ISBN: 9780310588702. pp.442. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount on new subscriptions using this link]
Book or monograph Cole: NumbersDennis R. Cole, Numbers. New American Commentary. Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2000. Hbk. ISBN: 0805495037. pp.352.
On-line Resource Eryl W. Davies, Numbers. The New Century Bible CommentaryEryl W. Davies, Numbers. The New Century Bible Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans / London: Marshall Pickering, 1995. Pbk. ISBN: 0551028351. pp.378. View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
On-line Resource C.J. Elliott [1819-1905], "Numbers," Charles John Ellicott [1819-1905], editor, A New Testament commentary for English Readers various writers. London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1882. Hbk. pp.475-576. View in PDF format pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly Roy Gane, Leviticus, NumbersRoy Gane, Leviticus, Numbers. The NIV Application Commentary. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011. ISBN: 9780310873013. pp.848. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount on new subscriptions using this link]
On-line Resource George Buchanan Gray [1865-1922], A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Numbers. The International Critical CommentaryGeorge Buchanan Gray [1865-1922], A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Numbers. The International Critical Commentary. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1903. Hbk. pp.489. View in PDF format pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
Book or monograph R.K. Harrison, Numbers: An Exegetical Commentary. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1992. Hbk. ISBN: 0801043808. pp.450.
Book or monograph NumbersRolf P. Knierim & George W. Coats, Numbers. Forms of the Old Testament Literature. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005. Pbk. ISBN: 0802822312. pp.367.
Book or monograph Levine: Numbers 1-20David M. Levine, Numbers 1-20. Anchor Bible. Doubleday, 1993. Hbk. Hbk. ISBN: 0385156510. pp.528.
Book or monograph Levine: Numbers 21-36 : A New Translation With Introduction and CommentaryBaruch A. Levine, Numbers 21-26. Anchor Bible, Vol. 4a. Doubleday, 2000. Hbk. ISBN: 0385412568. pp.624.
On-line Resource Archibald Robert Stirling Kennedy [1859-1938], Samuel. Introduction, Revised Version with Notes, Index and Maps. The Century BibleArchibald Robert Stirling Kennedy [1859-1938], Leviticus and Numbers. The Century Bible. Edinburgh: T.C. & E.C. Jack, n.d. Hbk. pp.396. View in PDF format pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
On-line Resource Alan Hugh McNeile [1871-1933], The Book of Numbers with Introduction and Notes. The Cambridge Bible for Schools and CollegesAlan Hugh McNeile [1871-1933], The Book of Numbers with Introduction and Notes. The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1911. Hbk. pp.196. View in PDF format pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
Book or monograph Milgrom: Numbers : The Traditional Hebrew Text With the New Jps TranslationJ. Milgrom, Numbers. JPS Torch Commentary. Jewish Publication Society, 1990. Hbk. ISBN: 0827603290. pp.520.
Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly Mitchel Modine, Numbers. Asia Bible CommentariesMitchel Modine, Numbers. Asia Bible Commentaries. Carlislte: Langham, 2018. ISBN: 9781783684151. pp.216. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount on new subscriptions using this link]
Book or monograph A. Noordtzij, Numbers. Bible Students Commentary. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1983. Hbk. ISBN: 0310439809. pp.304.
Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly Olsen: NumbersDennis Olsen, Numbers. A Bible Commentary for Preaching and Teaching. Louisville, PA: Westminster John Knox Press, 2012. ISBN: 9781611642582. pp.208. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount on new subscriptions using this link]
Book or monograph J. Philip, Numbers. Communicator's Commentary. Word, 1987. Pbk. pp.364.
Book or monograph W. Riggans, Numbers. Daily Study Bible. Westminster, 1983. Pbk. 252.
On-line Resource Charles Simeon, Horae Homileticae or Discourses Digested Into One Continued Series and Forming a Commentary, Upon Every Book of the Old and New Testament, Vol. 2: Numbers to Joshua, 6th edn. London: Henry G., Bohn, 1844. pp.1-201.View in PDF format pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
On-line Resource Numbers (Bob Utley)
On-line Resource Robert Alexander Watson [1845-1921], The Book of Numbers, W. Robertson Nicoll, ed., The Expositor's Bible. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1903. Hbk. pp.414. View in PDF format pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
Book or monograph Gordon J. Wenham, Numbers. Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries, 1981. Leicester: IVP, 1993. Pbk. ISBN: 0851118364. pp.240.

Other Subjects

Article in Journal or Book Ronald B. Allen, The Theology of the Balaam Oracles: A Pagan Diviners and the Word of God. Th.D. dissertation, Dallas Theological Seminary, 1973.
Article in Journal or Book John A. Beck, "Geography and the Narrative Shape of Numbers 13," Bibliotheca Sacra 157: 627 (2000): 271-280.
Article in Journal or Book J.A. Beck, "Geography and the Narrative Shape of Numbers 13," Bibliotheca Sacra 157 (July-Sept. 2000) 271-80.
Article in Journal or Book John A. Beck, "Why Did Moses Strike Out? The Narrative-Geographical Shaping of Moses' Disqualification in Numbers 20: 1-13," Westminster Theological Journal 65.1 (2003):135-141.
Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly Richard S. Briggs, Theological Hermeneutics and the Book of Numbers as Christian ScriptureRichard S. Briggs, Theological Hermeneutics and the Book of Numbers as Christian Scripture. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2018. ISBN: 9780268103767. pp.356. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount on new subscriptions using this link]
Book or monograph George W. Coats, Rebellion in the Wilderness. Abingdon, 1968.
Book or monograph G.I. Davies, The Way of the Wilderness: A Geographical Study of the Wilderness Itineraries in the Old Testament. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Hbk. ISBN: 0521220572.
Article in Journal or Book Meindert Dijkstra, "Is Balaam Also Among the Prophets?" Journal of Biblical Literature 114.1 (1995): 43-64.
On-line Resource Warren Driver, "The Release Of Homicides From The Cities of Refuge," Grace Journal 1.2 (Fall 1960): 7-22.View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced Courtesy of the Brethren Digital Archive]
On-line Resource Martin Emmrich, "The Case Against Moses Reopened," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 46.1 (2003): 53-62.View in PDF format pdf
On-line Resource David M. Fouts, "A Defense of the Hyperbolic Interpretation of Large Numbers in the Old Testament," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 40.3 (1997): 377-387.View in PDF format pdf
Article in Journal or Book David Frankel, "The Deuteronomic Portrayal of Balaam," Vetus Testamentum 46.1 (1996): 30-42.
Article in Journal or Book Tim Gorringe, "Numbers 15," The Expository Times 117.8 (2006): 316-318. [Abstract]
Book or monograph Jo Ann Hackett, The Balaam Text from Deir'Alla. Chico: Scholars, 1984. Hbk. ISBN: 0891307230. pp.160.
Book or monograph Hoffmeier: Ancient Israel in SinaiJames K. Hoffmeier, Ancient Israel in Sinai: The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Wilderness Traditions. New York: Oxford University Press Inc., 2005. Hbk. ISBN: 0195155467. pp.384.
Article in Journal or Book Colin J. Humphreys, "The Number of People in the Exodus from Egypt: Decoding Mathematically the Very Large Numbers in Numbers I and XXVI," Vetus Testamentum 48.2 (1998): 196-213.
Article in Journal or Book M.M. Kalish, Bible Studies: The Prophecies of Balaam (Numbers XXII- XXIV). London: Longmans, Green & C. 1877.
Article in Journal or Book C. J. Humphreys, "The Numbers in the Exodus From Egypt: A Further Appraisal," Vetus Testamentum 50.3 (2000): 323-328.
Book or monograph Lee: Punishment and Forgiveness in Israel's Migratory CampaignWon W. Lee, Punishment and Forgiveness in Israel's Migratory Campaign. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003. Pbk. ISBN: 0802809928. pp.344.
Article in Journal or Book Allan A. MacRae, "The Book Called 'Numbers'," Bibliotheca Sacra 111: 441 (1954): 47-53.
On-line Resource Keith Mattingly, "The significance of Joshua's reception of the laying on of hands in Numbers 27:12-23," Andrews University Seminary Studies 39.2 (Autumn 2001): 191-208.View in PDF format pdf
Article in Journal or Book Preston. L. Mayes, "Cities of Refuge," Calvary Baptist Theological Journal 14.1 (Spring 1998): 1-25.
On-line Resource Georges Chawkat Moucarry, "The Alien According to the Torah," Themelios 14.1 (October / November 1988): 17-20.View in PDF format pdf
Book or monograph Dennis T. Olson, The Death of the Old and the Birth of the New: The Framework of the Book of Numbers and the Pentateuch. Brown Judaic Studies 71. Chico: Scholars, 1985. Pbk. ISBN: 0891308865. pp.253.
Article in Journal or Book John Rea, "New Light on the Wilderness Journey and the Conquest," Grace Journal 2.2 (Spring, 1961): 5-13.
Article in Journal or Book G.A. Rendsburg, "An Additional Note to Two Recent Articles on the Number of People in the Exodus From Egypt and Large Numbers I and XXVI," Vetus Testamentum 51.3 (2001): 392-396.
Article in Journal or Book John H. Sailhammer, ."The Mosaic Law and the Theology of the Pentateuch," Westminster Theological Journal 53 (1991) 241-61.
Article in Journal or Book H.Z. Sivan, "The Rape of Cozbi, (Numbers XXV)," Vetus Testamentum 51.1 (2001): 69-80.
Article in Journal or Book George Adam Smith, "The Experience of Balaam as Symbolic of the Origins of Prophecy," The Expositor, 8th series, V (1913): 1-11.
Article in Journal or Book Ada Taggar-Cohen, "Law and Family in the Book of Numbers: The Levites and the Tidenntu Documents from Nuzi," Vetus Testamentum 48.1 (1998): 74-94.
On-line Resource Dean R. Ulrich, "The Framing Function Of The Narratives About Zelophehad's Daughters," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 41.4 (1998): 529-538.
On-line Resource John Wilkinson, "The Quail Epidemic of Numbers 11.31-34," The Evangelical Quarterly 71.3 (Jul.-Sept. 1999): 195-208. View in PDF format pdf [All reasonable efforts have been made to contact the copyright holder of this article without success. If you hold the rights, please contact me]
On-line Resource Is there any Evidence to Prove the Existence of the Prophet, Balaam? (Bryant G. Wood)

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