A Study in Biblical Narrative Conventions is the book of Numbers an unreadable text? What readers of the book encouter is a huge amount of immensely variegated materials. These are se-emingly mixed without an overarching plan, which has rendered the judgment that Numbers may be apprehended as the 'junk room of the priestly code'. The present thesis takes a firm grasp of the narrative features of the book, and ask how these contribute to, and disrupt, the coherence of the work. The aim is to describe the features and to evaluate their effects, which constitutes a unique contribution to the discussion on Numbers.