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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...

takes us back to that same moment, when the volunteers went down with Barak to engage the enemy (4:14). The present verse focuses on the contrast between those who went down and those they went down to face. The volunteers who went down with Barak were mere survivors (of the years of deprivation),101 while those they faced as their enemies were nobles and the mighty. But (and this was the secret of their success) they were also the people of Yahweh, who had responded to his call and gone down with
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