The book of Judges deals with a people who lost their freedom-not all at once, but gradually. The Israelites were content to let the neighboring inhabitaants of Canaan rule over them. Judges clearl…
What preacher could not use help in turning Old Testament narrtive texts into lively, relevant expositions? These model sermons, the second in the Expositor's Guide to the Historical Books, will be…
Tell It on the Mountain brings Jephthah s daughter from the periphery into the center of the story using two interpretive methods to examine Judges 11-12:7. Midrashic interpretation the "filling in…
This book provide state-of-the-art introductions to leading critical methods in biblical study, all focused on a specific biblical book, Judges and the larger Deuteronomistic history of which it is…
The title of this book, cones from the Hebrew terrm, usually translated judge. The words are used in the bookfor two types of persons: the so=called major judges and the figures assimilated to them…
This author achieves four goals. First, to be true to the text - to read Judges in its ancient Near Eastern setting, seeing it as a sermon on Deuteronomy and at times, a possible apologetic for Dav…