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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...

rise to two further complications and crises, the first domestic (Jephthah and his daughter, 11:34–40), and the second political (Jephthah and the Ephraimites, 12:1–6). The successive resolution of these two crises brings the narrative as a whole to its conclusion. So the subject matter of the story (what happened to Israel in the time of Jephthah) is constructed as a plot with several well-defined movements or episodes. In the exposition that follows we will refine this basic analysis of the plot
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