商品簡介
Describes how the rhetorical devices used in the Book of Judges inspires its readers to support a divinely appointed Judahite king who endorses the deuteronomic agenda to rid the land of foreigners, to maintain intertribal loyalty to Yahweh's cult, and uphold social justice. Among the devices are the superimposed cycle-motif and tribal-political schemata, the concerns reflected in the plot-layers of each hero story, the force of narrative analogy for characterization, the strategy of entrapment that foreshadows portrayals of Saul and David in I Samuel, and the relation between Judges' implied situation of composition and its compiler's intention. Illustrates a new method for understanding how plot-layered stories work. No subject index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
作者簡介
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.
