Publication

2016 - SBL Press, Georgia

Language

English

Word Count

106,000 words, Guess

Page Count

424 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781628371246
  • ISBN-139781628371260
  • ISBN-101628371242
  • ISBN-101628371269
  • Library of Congress Control Number2015048970
and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC222/.3206
  • LCCBS1305.52 .E345 2016
  • LCCBS1305.52

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"--

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Ancient Israel and its literature -- number 24

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