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At Risk in the Promised Land: A Commentary on the Book of Judges is unavailable, but you can change that!

This theological treatment of the Book of Judges is fresh, original, imaginative, scholarly, and relevant. In his commentary E. John Hamlin pays careful attention to the structure and meaning of the text of Judges, and he elucidates the “risk” that Israel faced in the Promised Land—the risk of living among the “Canaanites,” of adopting their ungodly practices and their way of organizing society...

Gideon was not handicapped like Ehud, or a foreigner like Shamgar, or a person who was not expected to show leadership like Deborah. His father owned the property on which the city shrine was built (Judg. 6:25). He had servants at his disposal (v. 27). He and his brothers had a kingly bearing (8:18). Gideon’s trouble was more psychological. He was overwhelmed by the disaster which had come on his people and doubtful of God’s power to deliver (6:13). He
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