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Judges records the birth pangs of the Israelite nation. From the Conquest to the Settlement, the conflicts in this book (military, political, and religious) reveal a nascent Israel, struggling to define itself as a people. The period of the Judges, c. 1200–1100 B.C.E., was fraught with intertribal struggles, skirmishes, and pitched battles with neighboring peoples, and the constant threat of...

you,” is itself ambiguous; it can either be a statement of fact or a wish. Sellin and Fohrer, Introduction to the Old Testament, p. 75. aristocrat. Heb. gibbōr ḥayl. See NOTE on 5:13. In contrast to the situation behind the Song of Deborah, the feudal order has here reasserted itself inside Israel. “Instead of tribal divisions an aristocratic regime is presented to us; and it is only to be expected that the religious organization fluctuated pari passu with the political.” Stanley Arthur Cook, Journal
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