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Bible. --- 222.5 --- Jozua. Rechters. Ruth --- Judges (Book of the Old Testament) --- Quḍāh (Book of the Old Testament) --- Shofṭim (Book of the Old Testament)

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Bible. --- Judges (Book of the Old Testament) --- Quḍāh (Book of the Old Testament) --- Shofṭim (Book of the Old Testament) --- RELIGION --- Biblical Studies --- Old Testament.

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In the Book of Judges the narrator presents an image of the good parent YHWH whose enduring love and loyalty is offset by his wayward child Israel who defaults on the relationship repeatedly. Biblical scholars have largely concurred, demonstrating the many faults of Israel while siding with YHWH's privileged viewpoint. When object-relations theory (which examines how human beings relate to each other) is applied to Judges, a different story emerges. In its capacity to illuminate why and how relationships can be intense, problematic, rewarding, and enduring, object-relations theory reveals how both YHWH and Israel have attachment needs that are played out vividly in the story world. Deryn Guest reveals how its narrator engages in a variety of psychological strategies to mask suppressed rage as he engages in an intriguing but rather dysfunctional masochistic dance with a dominant deity who has reputation needs.

Bible. --- Judges (Book of the Old Testament) --- Quḍāh (Book of the Old Testament) --- Shofṭim (Book of the Old Testament) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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This volume describes how the rhetorical devices used in Judges inspire its readers to support a divinely appointed Judahite king who endorses the deuteronomic agenda to rid the land of foreigners, to maintain inter-tribal loyalty to YHWH's cult, and to uphold social justice. Matters of rhetorical concern interpreted here include the superimposed cycle-motif and tribal-political schemata, concerns reflected in the plot-layers of each hero story, the force of narrative analogy for characterization, the strategy of entrapment which foreshadows portrayals of Saul and David in 1 Samuel, and the relation between Judges' implied situation of composition and its compiler's intention. In addition to offering new insights into the rhetorical strategy of the Judges compiler, this book illustrates a new method for understanding how plot-layered stories work.

Rhetoric in the Bible --- 222.5 --- Jozua. Rechters. Ruth --- Bible. --- Judges (Book of the Old Testament) --- Quḍāh (Book of the Old Testament) --- Shofṭim (Book of the Old Testament) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Rhetoric in the Bible.

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Using a combination of literary theory and the tools of biblical criticism, this original and thought-provoking study investigates the book of Judges as an example of the art of editing in the Hebrew Bible. Judges is shown to have been composed in its parts, and as a whole, according to particular integrative principles. The study not only sheds new light on the redaction of Judges, but opens a new window on biblical historiography as a whole. Responding to calls in the scholarly literature for its translation from Hebrew, this publication makes Amit's fine study available to a wider audience.

Bible --- Criticism, Redaction --- 222.5 --- Jozua. Rechters. Ruth --- Bible. --- Judges (Book of the Old Testament) --- Quḍāh (Book of the Old Testament) --- Shofṭim (Book of the Old Testament) --- Criticism, Redaction. --- Judges (Book of the Bible)