The rhetoric of the book of Judges /

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.

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Call Number: BS1305.2 .O36 1996

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material /
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  • Introduction /
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  • Chapter One: Rhetorical Concerns of Judges' Tribal-Political and Deuteronomic Schemata /
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  • Chapter Two: Rhetorical Concerns of Judges as a Literary form /
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  • Chapter Three: The Rhetorical Stra Tegy of Judges /
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  • Chapter Four: The Rhetorical Situation Implied by Judges /
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  • Conclusion /
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  • Excursus One: Compilation, Redaction and the Rhetoric of Judges /
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  • Excursus Two: Scribal Developments and the Rhetoric of Judges /
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  • Appendix: A Compilational Stratigraphy of the Text of Judges /
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  • Bibliography /
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  • Index of Biblical References /
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  • Index of Authors /
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