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Table of Contents

• Story, characters, and themes : epic implications
• Judges and history
• Redaction history : voices
• Texture : recurring language, orality, verbal art, and registers
• Format
• Text-critical decisions
• Translation
• Commentary
• 1:1-36 : Introduction by means of explicit ambivalence
• 2:1-23 : From "weeping" to the death of Joshua
• 3:1-31 : A covenantal introduction and the judges Othniel, Ehud, and Shamgar
• 4:1-24 : Tales of Deborah and Jael, warrior women
• 5:1- 31 : The song of Deborah
• 6:1-40 : The call of Gideon
• 7:1-25 : The battle with Midian
• 8:1-35 : Inner-group tensions, the rejection of kingship, and a hero's burial - - 9:1-57 : The rise and fall of Abimelech, the would-be king
• 10:1-18 : The judges Tola and Jair, and Israel's subsequent decline
• 11:1-40 : Jephthah, epic hero
• 12: 1-15 : Internecine strife and brief annals of Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon

Notes

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [xiii]-xxviii) and index.

Subject

• Bible. O.T. Judges--Commentaries.

Author

• Niditch, Susan

Series Title

• The Old Testament library ;

Additional Title

• Judges

Publisher

• Westminster John Knox Press

Call Number

• BS 1305 .53 .N53

ISBN

• 0664220967 (alk. paper)
• 9780664220969 (alk. paper)

Content Type

• text

Carrier Type

• volume

Media Type

• unmediated

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