The Rhetoric of the Book of Judges, Volume 63BRILL, 1996 - 541 pages 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. |
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Contents
11831 Failure to Occupy | 1 |
The Rhetorical Strategy of Judges | 6 |
IV | 7 |
RHETORICAL CONCERNS OF JUDGES AS A LITERARY | 19 |
THE RHETORICAL SITUATION IMPLIED BY JUDGES | 28 |
19 | 58 |
B Judges Deliverer Accounts | 80 |
Conclusion | 89 |
1 The Sitz im Text Implied by Judges Narrative | 308 |
B The Rhetorical Situation Implied by Judges Recency | 329 |
Samuel 12 | 338 |
Excursus | 345 |
278 | 359 |
Scribal Developments and the Rhetoric | 369 |
280 | 373 |
Judges | 385 |
THE RHETORICAL STRATEGY OF JUDGES | 173 |
258 | 188 |
305 | 214 |
324 | 224 |
A Explicit Monarchicalism in Judges Double | 269 |
Implicit Monarchicalism Achieved through Narrative | 281 |
6 Analogy to the Account of Jephthah | 293 |
281 | 470 |
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Abimelech Ammonites Barak battle Benjamin Benjaminites Biblical book of Judges Book of Samuel Burney Canaanite climax compilation/redaction concern conquest contrast covenant cult cultic cycle-motif elements Danites David deliverer accounts Deut deuteronomic Deuteronomistic History divine double dénouement Eglon Ehud Ehud's Ephraim exposition foreign framework Garsiel Gibeah Gideon Gilead Hebrew idealization implicit infer intertribal Israel Israelites Jabesh-Gilead Jael Jael's Jephthah Jephthah account Jerusalem Josh Joshua JSOTS Judah Judges 2d edn Judges compiler/redactor king kingship land Levite Lindars monarchy motif elements narrative analogy negative characterization OLat Othniel parallel Philistines Plot plot-structure portrayal portrayed Prologue-A Psht recurrences redaction reference resolution rhetorical Richter Samson account Saul Saul's Shechem Shiloh Sisera situation Song of Deborah story structure summons Testament tion tribal tribal-political tribes Triumph of Irony verb Webb YHWH אבימלך איש אלהים אליו את בני ישראל העיר ואת ויאמר ויהי ויקם יהוה לו