Niditch, Susan

Judges A Commentary: The Old Testament Library - Philadelphia Westminister John Knox Press 2011 - 290p - Old Testament Library; 201100ENGGPS8 .

includes index and biblioraphy

Story , Characters, and Themes: Epic Implications .......1 Judges and History .........6 Redaction history : Voices ..........8 Texture: Recurring Language, Orality, Verbal Art, and Registers..............14 Format ..........19 Text-critical decisions............21 Translations ..........25 1: 1-36 Introduction by means of explicit ambivalence .......29 2: 1-23 From Weeping to the Death of Joshua ..........45 3: 1-31 A covenantal Introduction and the Judges Othniel , ehud, and shamgar...........50 4: 1-24 Tales of Deborah and Jael, warrior women ...........59 5: 1-31 The Song of Deborah ...........67 6: 1-40 The call of Gideon .............82 7: 1-25 The battle with Midian .....92 8: 1-35 Inner-Group Tensions, the Rejection of Kingship, and a Hero`s Burial ........98 9: 1-57 The Rise and Fall of Amimelech, the Would-be King ........106 10: 1-18 The Judges Tola and Jair, and Israel`s subsequent Decline ...........118 11:1-40 Jephthah, Epic Hero ...........124 12: 1-15 Internecine strife and brief annals of Ibzan, elon, and abodn ........135 13:1-25 the Birth story of Samson, Superhero............138 14: 1-18: 31 Micah`s House shrine and the founding of Dan .........172 The rape and murder of the Levite`s Concubine .......185 20: 1-48 Civil War .........194 21: 1-25 The Reconciliation of Men Through the Traffic in Women ..........205

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Bible O. t Judges - Commentaries

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