Judges: A Commentary

Judges: A Commentary
ISBN-10
0664220967
ISBN-13
9780664220969
Series
Judges
Category
Religion
Pages
290
Language
English
Published
2008
Publisher
Westminster John Knox Press
Author
Susan Niditch

Description

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 Yair, and Israel's subsequent decline -- 11:1-40 Jephthah, epic hero -- 12:1-15 internecine strife and brief annals of Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon -- 13:1-25 the birth story of Samson, superhero -- 14:1-15:20 Samson and marriage with the Philistines -- 16:1-31 the female "other," Delilah, and death -- 17:1-18:31 Micah's house shrine and the founding of Dan -- 19:1-30 the rape and murder of the Levite's concubine -- 20:1-48 civil war -- 21:1-25 the reconciliation of men through "the traffic in women"

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