The last five chapters of the book of Judges (chs. 17-21) contain some shocking and bizarre stories, and precisely how these stories relate to the rest of the book is a major question in scholarship on the book. Leveraging work from literary studies and hermeneutics, Beldman reexamines Judges 17-21 with the aim of discerning the and “strategies of ending and ” that are at work in these chapters. The author identifies and describes a number of strategies of ending in Judges 17-21, including the strategy of completion , the strategy of circularity , and the strategy of entrapment . The temporal configuration of Judges and especially the nonlinear chronology that chapters 17-21 expose also receive due attention. All of this offers fresh insights into the place and function of Judges 17-21 in the context of the whole book.

The Completion of Judges: Strategies of Ending in Judges 17-21 (Siphrut: Literature and Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures) PDF

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