Dismembering the Whole

Composition and Purpose of Judges 19-21

von Cynthia Edenburg

440 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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. 

• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Religion und Glaube Christentum
• ISBN: 9781628371246
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.04.2016
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: SBL Press