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Hattin’s Judges is 207-page book with 19 chapters which devotes one or more of the 19 chapters to the 21 chapters in the biblical book. “Judges,” is part of a series of Maggid Books, a ...
In the Book of Judges, the second book of Prophets in the Tanakh, the People of Israel strive to find leadership. Moses died before they entered the Promised Land, Joshua led them in the battles ...
CONTENT OF THE BOOK. I. General Situation (1–2:6). The opening chapter plus the first six verses of the next are to be studied in the light of Joshua 13:1–6, 13; 15:63; 16:10; 17:12 f., which ...
Chapter 9As I wrote a few days ago, ... judges who embodied the Hebrews’ own weakness and perversity.The Book of Judges, therefore, can be seen as a moral test for its readers.
Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 Judges begins with a sly tribute to female power. Caleb , the oldest living Israelite now that Joshua’s dead, offers his daughter Achsah in marriage to the warrior who ...
The final chapters of the Book of Judges recount the journeys of unnamed characters in a series of malevolent incidents: a wandering Levite sanctions Micah’s idol worship (Judges 17:12-13); the ...
In Chapter 16 of the Book of Judges we read: And when their hearts were merry, they said, ‘Call Samson, that he may make sport for us.’ So they called Samson out of the prison, ...