Judges A Commentary

Name: Judges A Commentary
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ISBN: 9780664220969

ISBN-10: 0664220967

ISBN-13: 9780664220969

Edition: 2008

Authors: Susan Niditch

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Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date: 1/16/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Bibliography


Introduction



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 Jair, 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"



A Literal Translation of Judges


Index