RT Book T1 Judges: a commentary T2 The Old Testament library A1 Niditch, Susan 1950- LA English PP Louisville, Ky. u.a. PB Westminster John Knox Press YR 2008 ED 1. ed. UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/53958830X AB 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 Yair, 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 NO Includes bibliographical references (p. [XIII] - XXVIII) and index CN BS1305.53 SN 0664220967 SN 9780664220969 K1 Bible : Judges : Commentaries K1 Bible : Commentaries K1 Bibel : Richter K1 Kommentar