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Eminently readable, exegetically thorough, and written in an engaging style that flows from his keen sensitivity to the text, Barry Webb’s The Book of Judges is just what is needed to properly interact with a dynamic, narrative work like the Old Testament book of Judges. It discusses not only unique features of the stories themselves but also such issues as the violent nature of Judges, how women...

Since the main focus of this commentary is literary and theological, this section will not attempt to go into the complex historical background issues in detail. Excellent treatments are available in the standard histories of Israel, and in commentaries which are more historically oriented.16 Matters of direct relevance to the meaning, and therefore exegesis, of particular passages will be dealt with as they come up in the commentary. But no responsible
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