The completion of Judges: strategies of ending in Judges 17-21
The last five chapters of the book of Judges (chs. 17-21) contain some shocking and bizarre stories, and precisely how these stories relate to the rest of the book is a major question in scholarship on the book. Leveraging work from literary studies and hermeneutics, Beldman reexamines Judges 17-21...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Winona Lake, Indiana
Eisenbrauns
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Reviews: | Book Review (2018) (Roberts, Ryan N.)
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| Series/Journal: | Siphrut : literature and theology of the Hebrew Scriptures
21 Siphrut literature and theology of the Hebrew Scriptures 21 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible. Judges, XVII-XXI
Criticism, Redaction
B RELIGION ; Biblical Studies ; Old Testament B Bible. Judge 17-21 B Electronic books B Bible Criticism, Redaction B Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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| Summary: | The last five chapters of the book of Judges (chs. 17-21) contain some shocking and bizarre stories, and precisely how these stories relate to the rest of the book is a major question in scholarship on the book. Leveraging work from literary studies and hermeneutics, Beldman reexamines Judges 17-21 with the aim of discerning the ""strategies of ending"" that are at work in these chapters. The author identifies and describes a number of strategies of ending in Judges 17-21, including the strategy of completion, the strategy of circularity, and the strategy of entrapment. The temporal configurat |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| ISBN: | 1575064979 |