Judges
Subtitle: a commentary
By: Susan Niditch.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Old Testament library
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Louisville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780664220969
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Judges -- Commentaries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [xiii]-xxviii) and index.
Table of contents: title: Story, characters, and themes : epic implications; title: Judges and history; title: Redaction history : voices; title: Texture : recurring language, orality, verbal art, and registers; title: Format; title: Text-critical decisions; title: Translation; title: Commentary; title: 1:1-36 : Introduction by means of explicit ambivalence; title: 2:1-23 : From "weeping" to the death of Joshua; title: 3:1-31 : A covenantal introduction and the judges Othniel, Ehud, and Shamgar; title: 4:1-24 : Tales of Deborah and Jael, warrior women; title: 5:1-31 : The song of Deborah; title: 6:1-40 : The call of Gideon; title: 7:1-25 : The battle with Midian; title: 8:1-35 : Inner-group tensions, the rejection of kingship, and a hero's burial; title: 9:1-57 : The rise and fall of Abimelech, the would-be king; title: 10:1-18 : The judges Tola and Jair, and Israel's subsequent decline; title: 11:1-40 : Jephthah, epic hero; title: 12:1-15 : Internecine strife and brief annals of Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon; title: 13:1-25 : The birth story of Samson, superhero; title: 14:1-15:20 : Samson and marriage with the Philistines; title: 16:1-31 : The female "other," Delilah, and death; title: 17:1-18:31 : Micah's house shrine and the founding of Dan; title: 19:1-30 : The rape and murder of the Levite's concubine; title: 20:1-48 : Civil war; title: 21:1-25 : The reconciliation of men through "the traffic in women"; title: Appendix: A literal translation of Judges.