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Dismembering the Whole: Composition and Purpose of Judges 19-21

Name: Dismembering the Whole: Composition and Purpose of Judges 19-21
Price: 40.37 GBP
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Author: Cynthia Edenburg
ISBN: 9781628371246

Composition and Purpose of Judges 19-21

by Cynthia Edenburg

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440 pages
Publisher: SBL Press
15.3 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm

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For theology students and serious researchers

Explains the history of Judges chapters 19-21

Gives you fresh insight into biblical origins

A rigorous academic analysis that explores the political polemics and historical context of the final chapters of Judges.

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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.