Dismembering the whole
Subtitle: composition and purpose of Judges 19-21
By: by Cynthia Edenburg
Series: Ancient Israel and its literature -- number 24
Published: 2016
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781628371246; 9781628371260
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Bible
Description: "The Book of Judges ends with a bizarre narrative of sex and violence that starts with a domestic tiff and ends with the decimation of a tribe that is restored by means of abduction and rape. Cynthia Edenburg applies a fresh literary analysis, recent understandings of historical linguistics, and historical geography in her exploration of the origin of the anti-Benjamin polemic found in Judges 19-21, the growth and provenance of the book of Judges, and the shape of the Deuteronomistic History. Her study exposes how Judges 19-21 functions as political polemic reflecting not the pre-monarchic period but instead the historical realities of the settlement of Benjamin during the Babylonian and Persian period"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Textual artifact and literary stratification in Judges 19-21; title: 2. Virtual space and real geography; title: 3. Language and style: diachronic and synchronic aspects; title: 4. Text, subtext, and intertextual Mosaic; title: 5. Context and purpose of the story of the outrage at Gibeah.