Judges: A Commentary in the Wesleyan Tradition (Biblia.com)

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The book of Judges both fires the imagination and chills the soul. Great victories over the strong were won by the weak. Oppressed and enslaved, the tribes of Israel struggled against the opposing forces equipped with the most advanced technology. The foor soldiers of Barak fought the battalions of chariots commanded by Sisera. The Philistines who knew the secret of smelting iron equipped their...

To be sure, such an incarnational view of Scripture is scandalously particularistic, but no more so than the fundamental Jewish and Christian convictions that God chose Israel or that God is fully known finally in one Jesus of Nazareth, who was “fully human”—“the word became flesh and lived among us” (John 1:14 NRSV). (1996, 643) The center section of Judges narrates cycles of sin, oppression, crying out to God, and the raising up of saviors to deliver Israel. The six cycles

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