The Rhetoric of the Book of Judges, Volume 63

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BRILL, 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

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Robert H. O'Connell, Th.D. (1989) in Old Testament, Dallas Theological Seminary, and Ph.D. (1993) in Divinity, University of Cambridge, is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Colorado Christian University.

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