Judges
Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching
1st Edition
Published on 26. August 2011
320 pages
978-1-61164-142-4 (ISBN)
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Content
- Intro
- Halftitle
- Preface
- Title
- Copyright
- Series Preface
- Author's Preface
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Why Study the Book of Judges?
- 2. The Judges: The Characters, the Period(s), and the Book
- a. What Were the Judges?
- b. The Period(s) of the Judges
- c. The Formation and Shape of the Book of Judges
- 3. The Book of Judges in the Context of the Canon
- a. The Land
- b. The Canaanites
- c. Violence and Vengeance
- d. The Role of Women
- e. Humor
- 4. Theology in the Book of Judges
- Part One : From Joshua to the Judges
- Judges 1:1-3:6
- 1:1-2:5 Fighting and Smiting: The Canaanites Remain
- 2:6-3:6 Serving God or Serving Baal?
- Part Two: The Stories of the Judges
- Judges 3:7-16:31
- 3:7-11 Othniel: An Auspicious Beginning
- 3:12-30 Ehud: "A Left-Handed Man"
- 3:31 Shamgar: A Non-Israelite Judge?
- 4:1-5:31 Deborah, Barak, and Jael: Women to the Rescue
- 4:1-24 The Prose Narrative
- 5:1-31 The Song of Deborah and Barak
- 6:1-8:35 Gideon and the Question of Sovereignty
- 6:1-32 The Call of Gideon and Gideons Good Start
- 6:33-8:3 "For the Lord and for Gideon": The Defeat of Midian and Amalek
- 8:4-35 Gideon's Turn for the Worse
- 9:1-57 Abimelech: Gideon's Violent Legacy
- 10:1-5 Tola and Jair: The Calm between the Storms
- 10:6-12:7 Jephthah and His Daughter: The Agony of Victory
- 10:6-16 How Much Can God Stand?
- 10:17-11:28 From Outlaw to Diplomat
- 11:29-40 Keeping a Vow, Killing a Daughter
- 12:1-7 Jephthah's Violent Legacy
- 12:8-15 Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon: An Interlude of Blessing
- 13:1-16:31 Samson, His Mother, and His Lovers
- 13:1-25 The Mother of a Hero, or the Mother As a Hero?
- 14:1-15:20 Lover Number One: The Woman from Timnah
- 16:1-3 Lover Number Two: The Woman of Whoredom at Gaza
- 16:4-31 Lover Number Three: Delilah and Samson's Fatal Attraction
- Reflections: Samson and Culture Wars, Then and Now
- Part Three: Complete Deterioration and Terror
- Judges 17:1-21:25
- 17:1-18:31 Micah, the Levite, and the Danites
- 19:1-21:25 A Battered Woman and a Brutal War
- 19:1-30 Terror Reigns: The Levite and His Concubine
- 20:1-21:25 Civil War: From the Victimization of One to the Victimization of Many
- Reflections: Chaos and Crisis, Then and Now
- Bibliography
- Commentaries and Resources for Teaching and Preaching
- Literature Cited
