striking.75 He concludes by attributing ‘the outer framework of our book of Judges’ (1:1–2:5, chs. 17–21) to ‘a post-Deuteronomistic Judean editor’.76 Both Boling and Auld are in substantial agreement with Noth and Richter as to the earlier redactional history of Judges. What they attempt to do is to achieve a more precise description of the final stages of its redactional history. Boling’s work in particular represents an application to Judges of F.M. Cross’s work on the Deuteronomic History—a refinement