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

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

Beldman, David J. H.

Hardcover

Series: Siphrut, Book 21

Bible Studies

ISBN10: 1575064960
ISBN13: 9781575064963
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: May 8 2017
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

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 of ending in Judges 17-21, including the strategy of completion, the strategy of circularity, and the strategy of entrapment. The temporal configuration of Judges and especially the nonlinear chronology that chapters 17-21 expose also receive due attention. All of this offers fresh insights into the place and function of Judges 17-21 in the context of the whole book.

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