Compositional Strategy of the Book of Judges: An Inductive, Rhetorical Study (Vetus Testamentum, Supplements)

Wong, Gregory

ISBN 10: 9004150862 ISBN 13: 9789004150867

Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

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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Gregory T.K. Wong, Ph.D. (2005) in Hebrew and Old Testament Studies, New College, University of Edinburgh, has lectured at the University of Edinburgh and has published numerous articles on the book of Judges.

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• Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9004150862
• ISBN 13: 9789004150867
• Einband: Ledereinband
• Anzahl der Seiten: 287
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