Compositional strategy of the book of Judges : an inductive, rhetorical study /
This volume represents an inductive, literary/rhetorical analysis of the book of Judges to determine whether recent synchronic approaches that read the book as an integrated whole are indeed justified. As possible rhetorical links connecting Judges' prologue (1:1-2:5), epilogue (17:1-21:25), an...
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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill.
c2006.
Series:
Supplements to Vetus Testamentum ;
v. 111
Vetus Testamentum, Supplements
111.
Vetus Testamentum Supplements Online, ISBN: 9789004264991.
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Call Number: BS1305.6.R5 W66 2006
| Summary: | This volume represents an inductive, literary/rhetorical analysis of the book of Judges to determine whether recent synchronic approaches that read the book as an integrated whole are indeed justified. As possible rhetorical links connecting Judges' prologue (1:1-2:5), epilogue (17:1-21:25), and central section (2:6-16:31) are examined in detail and the implications of such links carefully considered, the author concludes that, contrary to the consensus view that sees the central section of Judges as a part of Deuteronomistic History and the prologue and epilogue as later additions, the book in its current form may have been a unified composition of a single creative author. If so, not only does this have significant implications for the validity of the Deuteronomistic History Hypothesis, a new possibility also emerges which sees the interpretive key to the book as residing in the prologue and epilogue rather than the central section. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-270) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789047409410 |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |