The rhetoric of the book of Judges /

This volume describes how the rhetorical devices used in Judges inspire its readers to support a divinely appointed Judahite king who endorses the deuteronomic agenda to rid the land of foreigners, to maintain inter-tribal loyalty to YHWH's cult, and to uphold social justice. Matters of rhetori...

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Main Author: O'Connell, Robert H.

Format: eBook

Language: English
Hebrew

Published: Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1996.

Series: Vetus Testamentum, Supplements 63.
Vetus Testamentum Supplements Online, ISBN: 9789004264991.

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Bible. > Judges > Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible. > Judges.

Rhetoric in the Bible.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.