design in Judges to justify a more detailed literary analysis of the book in its final form. 6.00 Before proceeding with the analysis itself, however, it is necessary to make explicit the major guiding principles of the method to be employed. 6.01 The method first of all takes account of the fact that the literary unit to be studied is a narrative text. Everything in the text is encapsulated, as it were, within the narrative form. Thus, for example, the hymnic material of chapter 5 is bound into