TY - BOOK ID - 78643330 TI - Dismembering the whole PY - 2016 VL - 24 SN - 1628371250 9781628371253 9781628371246 9781628371260 1628371269 1628371242 PB - Atlanta DB - UniCat KW - Bible. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78643330 AB - "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"-- ER -