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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...

Second, the acceptance of the Old Testament as part of the church’s canon acknowledges that there is an organic relationship between Christianity and Judaism. The church has been grafted into Israel, as the New Testament affirms, not only by direct statement but by the way it is so densely referenced to the Old. As Paul put it, Abraham “is the father of us all” (Rom. 4:16 NIV). So we cannot view the wars of Judges as a purely Jewish affair—something that Jews have to own as part of their story, as
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