Hence the Subtitle of Dennis Prager's Rational Bible series volume on Numbers: "God and Man in the Wilderness."
It is the fourth book in Dennis Prager's Rational Bible series on the first five books of the Torah, following those on Genesis, Exodus, and Deuteronomy…
As someone who was never particularly religious — although I was a big New Age fan in my teens and twenties (so much that I eventually minored in Religious Studies of comparative religions) — I started reading the first books in Dennis Prager's Rational Bible series five years ago. To say the very least, Dennis Prager's Genesis — subtitled God, Creation, and Destruction — is eye-opening.
The Book of Numbers—“In the Wilderness” in the original Hebrew—is the fourth book of the Bible. Among the many compelling issues addressed in this volume are the following:
- Doubting God.
- What produces faith—miracles or effort? And if effort, what efforts work?
- Arguing with God.
- Ingratitude as a source of evil.
- Why only men could be priests.
- Why the conscience is not morally reliable.
- Is fanaticism ever justified?
- Is there luck in life, or is everything determined by God’s will?
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