TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wong,Gregory T.K.
TI  - Compositional strategy of the book of Judges: an inductive, rhetorical study 
T2  - Supplements to Vetus Testamentum
SN  - 9789047409410
AV  - BS1305.6.R5 W66 2006eb
U1  - 222/.32066 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Bible
KW  - Judges
KW  - Language, style
KW  - A.T
KW  - Juges
KW  - Langue
KW  - Style
KW  - fast
KW  - Rhetoric in the Bible
KW  - Rhétorique dans la Bible
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Biblical Studies
KW  - Old Testament
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Richteren (bijbelboek)
KW  - gtt
KW  - Compositie
KW  - Retorica
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - gtlm
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-270) and indexes; Setting the stage: previous scholarship and current issues -- Through the lens of Joshua: links between the prologue and epilogue of Judges -- Echoes of the major Judges: links between the epilogue and central section of Judges -- Prologue as paradigm: links between the prologue and central section of Judges -- No king is Israel: understanding the epilogue's refrain -- Compositional strategy and rhetorical purpose of Judges
N2  - 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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