A. D. H. Mayes

A brief, yet scholarly survey of the discussing issues regarding historical background, structure of it's written form, complexity of it's sections with respect to each of the judges/deliverers, it's social pre-monarchic form and context, comparison/differences between the major judges and the significance the minor judges, all with some archeological and societies/nations outside but significant to Israel's history in the time of the judges.

This small survey gives good background and show more provides, not only a better understanding of the complexities in reading Judges, but offers challenging consideration of what to keep in mind when reading it and how to read it. show less