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001 2007031689
003 DLC
005 20090827144735.0
008 070801s2008 kyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2007031689
020 $a9780664220969 (alk. paper)
020 $a0664220967 (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn163614063
035 $a(OCoLC)163614063
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aBS1305.53$b.N53 2008
082 00 $a222/.32077$222
100 1 $aNiditch, Susan.
245 10 $aJudges :$ba commentary /$cSusan Niditch.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aLouisville :$bWestminster John Knox Press,$cc2008.
300 $axxviii, 290 p. ;$c23 cm.
440 4 $aThe Old Testament library
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [xiii]-xxviii) and index.
505 0 $aStory, 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 Jair, 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" -- Appendix: A literal translation of Judges.
630 00 $aBible.$pO.T.$pJudges$vCommentaries.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0724/2007031689.html