Numbers 27 and 36 – The Framing Function of the Narratives about Zelophehad's Daughters

This essay wants to give an answer to the significance of two events, in Numbers 27 and Numbers 36, respectively: "Why did the author separate these events when they were obviously related?" and "Why did the author end the book with such a provincial ruling?"

Anointed with the Spirit and Power – The Spirit and Israel's Leaders

Chapter 1 traces the work of the Holy Spirit empowering the leaders of Israel in the Old Testament. Leaders noted are Joseph (Genesis 39:1ff.), Bezalel (Exodus 35:1–39:43), Moses and the seventy elders (Numbers 11:1–35), Joshua (Numbers 27:15–23), Othniel, Gideon, Jephthah, and Samson (Judges 3:1–16:31), Saul (1 Samuel 9:1–16:23), and David (1 Chronicles).