YHWH and Israel in the Book of Judges
Subtitle: An Object-Relations Analysis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781108476508
Subjects: Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc., o. t. historical books
Description: "In the Book of Judges the narrator presents an image of the good parent YHWH whose enduring love and loyalty is offset by his wayward child Israel who defaults on the relationship repeatedly. Biblical scholars have largely concurred, demonstrating the many faults of Israel while siding with YHWH's privileged viewpoint"--