Judges : a commentary / Susan Niditch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Niditch, Susan.

Series:

Old Testament library

The Old Testament library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Judges--Commentaries.

Bible.

Bible. Judges.

Genre:

Commentaries.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 290 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Louisville : Westminster John Knox Press, [2008]

Contents:

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"

Appendix: A literal translation of Judges.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [xiii]-xxviii) and index.

ISBN:

9780664220969

0664220967

OCLC:

163614063