Mercedes L. García Bachmann 
Judges [EPUB ebook] 

A woman called blessed for killing a Canaanite general; another called “Mother in Israel” for leading troops into war; several other mothers absent when their children need them; a judge, Deborah, with a proper name and a recognized place for public counseling; a single woman, Delilah, who seduces and conquers Samson. The book of Judges features an outstanding number of women, named and unnamed, in family roles and also active in society, mostly objects of violent dealings between men. This volume looks not only at women in their traditional roles (daughter, wife, mother) but also at how society at large deals with women (and with men) in war, in strife, and sometimes in peace.

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Contents

List of Abbreviations ix

List of Contributors xi

Foreword
“Tell It on the Mountain”—or, “And You Shall Tell Your Daughter [as Well]” xv

     Athalya Brenner-Idan

Editor’s Introduction to Wisdom Commentary:
“She Is a Breath of the Power of God” (Wis 7:25) xix

     Barbara E. Reid, OP

Author’s Introduction xxxix

Judges 1:1–3:31
Beginnings of a Stormy Venture 1

Judges 4:1–5:31
Deborah: A Female Prophet Who Judged Israel 41

Judges 6:1–9:57
Gideon the Abiezrite and His Progeny 85

Judges 10:1–12:15
Other Judges, Other Stories 113

Judges 13:1–16:31
Samson the Danite 153

Judges 17:1–18:31
Does “Every Man Did What He Thought Right” Mean Everyone? 195

Judges 19:1–21:25
The Apotheosis of Gendered Violence 211

Closing Judges: A Final Reflection 245

Works Cited 249

Index of Scripture References and Other Ancient Writings 265

Index of Subjects 271

 

Despre autor

Prof. Juliana Claassens is currently professor in Old Testament with a focus on human dignity at the Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Prior to this, she studied and taught in the United States for thirteen years. She is the author of Mourner, Mother, Midwife: Reimagining God’s Liberating Presence (Westminster John Knox, 2012) and The God who Provides: Biblical Images of Divine Nourishment (Abingdon, 2004).