The Rhetoric of the Book of Judges

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Rhetorical Concerns of Judges tribal - Political and Deuteronomic Schemata ..............10 2. Rhetorical Concerns of Judges as a Literary form ...........58 Judges double prologue ...........58 Judges deliverer accounts ...........80 Judges Double Denouements...........229 3. The Rhetorical Strategy of Judges ............268 Explicit monarchicalism in Judges Double denoument ..............269 Implicit monarchicalism in judges deuteronomic concerns ........272 Implicit monarchicalism Achieved through narrative analogy ..........281 The rhetorical situation implied by Judges ...........305 The rhetorical situation implied by judges strategy...................307 The rhetorical situation implied by Judges recency , chronological references and historical scope ..................329