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

Composition and Purpose of Judges 19-21 [Hardback]

by Cynthia Edenburg

Author
Cynthia Edenburg
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
SBL Press
Published
April 2016

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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.