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Westminster John Knox Press
Language
English
Pages
290

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Commentaries, Bible, (Buch, Kommentarer, Bibel, Richteren (bijbelboek), Bibeln, Richter
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Judges: A Commentary
2011, Westminster John Knox Press
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Judges: A Commentary (Old Testament Library) (Old Testament Library)
January 2, 2008, Westminster
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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
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"
Appendix: A literal translation of Judges.

Edition Notes

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

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Louisville
Series
The Old Testament library

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
222/.32077
Library of Congress
BS1305.53 .N53 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxviii, 290 p. ;
Number of pages
290

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Open Library
OL18512563M
ISBN 10
0664220967
ISBN 13
9780664220969
LCCN
2007031689
Library Thing
5837586
Goodreads
2633602

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