The Completion of Judges: Strategies of Ending in Judges 17-21

by David J.H. Beldman

The last five chapters of the book of Judges (chs. 17-21) contain some shocking and bizarre stories, and precisely how these stories relate to the rest of the book is a major question in scholarship on the book. Leveraging work from literary studies and hermeneutics, Beldman reexamines Judges 17-21 with the aim of discerning the "strategies of ending" that are at work in these chapters. The author identifies and describes a number of strategies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575064960
• ISBN13: 9781575064963
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Eisenbrauns
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"