Judges: a commentary
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 -- 2:1-2...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Louisville, Ky. [u.a.]
Westminster John Knox Press
2008
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| In: | Year: 2008 |
| Reviews: | , in: RBL (2009)* (2009)* (Amit,Yairah) , in: CBQ 71 (2009) 386-387 (Frolov, Serge) , in: BZ 54 (2010) 114-116 (GroyAß, Walter) , in: BS 167 (2010) 246-247 (Chisholm, Robert B., Jr.) , in: DR 129/1 (2011) 59-60 (Brumwell, Anselm) , in: WThJ 73 (2011) 181-183 (Compton, R. Andrew) |
| Edition: | 1. ed. |
| Series/Journal: | The Old Testament library
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Judges
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Commentary
B Bible Commentaries B Bible. Judges Commentaries B Judges |
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| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [XIII] - XXVIII) and index |
| ISBN: | 0664220967 |