Guide me, O Thou Great Jehovah is one of the best-known hymns in the world.
The original, unrevised text of this volume has been completely retypeset and printed in a larger, more attractive format with the new cover design for the series...
A passage-by-passage analysis follows, which draws useful insights on Old Testament ritual from modern social anthropology.
In his effort to bridge the great gulf between the book and our age, Wenham first explains the background of Numbers, discussing its structure, sources, date and authorship as well as its theology and Christian use.
Today they are associated with computers and the depersonalization that threatens our society.
In ancient time numbers were seen as mysterious and symbolic, a key to reality and the mind of God himself.
Why? Its very title puts the modern reader off, writes Gordon Wenham.
Yet the book of numbers, whose story that hymn summarizes, is seldom read.
Guide me, O Thou Great Jehovah is one of the best-known hymns in the world
