`My Father is King': Chiefly Politics and the Rise and Fall of Abimelech *

This study argues that the `complex secondary chieftainship' model recently articulated by Robert D. Miller offers explanatory power for understanding several inconsistencies in the Abimelech narrative of Judges 8 and 9. The `complex secondary chieftainship' model is briefly sketched and a...

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Main Author: Heffelfinger, Katie M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2009
In: Journal for the study of the Old Testament
Year: 2009, Volume: 33, Issue: 3, Pages: 277-292
Further subjects:B sub-chiefs
B Hierarchy
B Kinship
B tribute mobilization
B Abimelech
B complex secondary chieftainship
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