Judges: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (Biblia.com)

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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...

Israel, making his inquiry regarding the promised son. What sort of career will he have? or What will be his style and achievement? 14. With MT, where LXX has masculine instead of feminine forms of the verbs. That is, the LXX reflects a tradition which explicitly anticipates that Samson will be subject to the Nazirite rules. MT focuses attention upon the mother. The envoy ignores Manoah’s question (which any member of the audience could answer) and indicates simply that he had meant what he had said

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