Judges : a commentary
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| Support: | Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Louisville ; London :
Westminster John Knox Press,
cop. 2008.
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| Collection: | The Old Testament library
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| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
Table des matières:
- 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