Table of Contents

General Introduction

Abbreviations

Translator's Introduction

Origen's Homilies on Numbers

Rufinus's Preface
Homily 1: Numbers 1:1-54
Homily 2: Numbers 2:1-34
Homily 3: Numbers 3:5-39
Homily 4: Numbers 3:39--4:49
Homily 5: Numbers 4:1-49
Homily 6: Numbers 11:16-25; 12:1-15
Homily 7: Numbers 12:1-15; 13:18-34; 14:1-8
Homily 8: Numbers 13:18-34; 14:1-38
Homily 9: Numbers 17:1-28 (LXX) = 16:36--17:13 (RSV)
Homily 10: Numbers 18:1-7
Homily 11: Numbers 18:8-32
Homily 12: Numbers 21:16-23
Homily 13: Numbers 21:24-35; 22:1-14
Homily 14: Numbers 22:15-28
Homily 15: Numbers 22:31-41; 23:1-10
Homily 16: Numbers 23:11-24
Homily 17: Numbers 23:25-30; 24:1-9
Homily 18: Numbers 24:10-19
Homily 19: Numbers 24:20-24
Homily 20: Numbers 25:1-10
Homily 21: Numbers 26
Homily 22: Numbers 27:1-23
Homily 23: Numbers 28:1--29:39
Homily 24: Numbers 28--30
Homily 25: Numbers 31:1-54
Homily 26: Numbers 31--32
Homily 27: Numbers 33:1-49
Homily 28: Numbers 34--35

Subject Index

Scripture Index

About the Author

Origen was an early Christian scholar, theologian, and one of the most distinguished of the early fathers of the Christian Church.

Christopher A. Hall is chancellor at Eastern University. He is associate editor of the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture and author of Reading Scripture with the Church Fathers.

Thomas P. Scheck (Ph.D., University of Iowa) is assistant professor of classics and theology at Ave Maria University in Naples, Florida. He is the author of Origen and the History of Justification and the translator of other commentaries by Origen and Jerome.

Reviews

Presented in clear, accessible English, this translation of Origen's commentary on the Book of Numbers is organized according to the Biblical text so both can be read side-by-side as Origen himself intended.
*Reference Research Book News, February 2010*