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The completion of Judges: strategies of ending in Judges 17-21 / David J.H. Beldman.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Siphrut : literature and theology of the Hebrew Scriptures ; 21Publisher: Winona Lake, Indiana : Eisenbrauns, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9781575064970
  • 1575064979
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Completion of Judges strategies of ending in Judges 17-21.DDC classification:
  • 222/.32066 23
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  • BS1305.52
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One. The Composition of Judges: A Selective Survey; Chapter Two. The End of Narrative: Emplotment and the Configuration of Time in Narrative Theory; Interlude: Strategies of Ending; Chapter Three. The Strategy of Circularity in Judges 17-21; Chapter Four. The Strategy of Entrapment in Judges 17-21; Chapter Five. Narrative Temporality and the Strategy of Ending in Judges; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of Authors; Index of Scripture.
Summary: The last five chapters of the book of Judges (chs. 17-21) contain some shocking and bizarre stories, and precisely how these stories relate to the rest of the book is a major question in scholarship on the book. Leveraging work from literary studies and hermeneutics, Beldman reexamines Judges 17-21 with the aim of discerning the ""strategies of ending"" that are at work in these chapters. The author identifies and describes a number of strategies of ending in Judges 17-21, including the strategy of completion, the strategy of circularity, and the strategy of entrapment. The temporal configurat.
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Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One. The Composition of Judges: A Selective Survey; Chapter Two. The End of Narrative: Emplotment and the Configuration of Time in Narrative Theory; Interlude: Strategies of Ending; Chapter Three. The Strategy of Circularity in Judges 17-21; Chapter Four. The Strategy of Entrapment in Judges 17-21; Chapter Five. Narrative Temporality and the Strategy of Ending in Judges; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of Authors; Index of Scripture.

The last five chapters of the book of Judges (chs. 17-21) contain some shocking and bizarre stories, and precisely how these stories relate to the rest of the book is a major question in scholarship on the book. Leveraging work from literary studies and hermeneutics, Beldman reexamines Judges 17-21 with the aim of discerning the ""strategies of ending"" that are at work in these chapters. The author identifies and describes a number of strategies of ending in Judges 17-21, including the strategy of completion, the strategy of circularity, and the strategy of entrapment. The temporal configurat.