Thus, the message of Judges 19 is a cautionary one to women: “If you do anything that even remotely suggests improper sexual behavior, you invite male aggression.”59 It seems to me that Exum has missed the point of the passage. Besides the methodological problem of building an entire interpretation around a variant reading, is the purpose of this passage (especially in the larger context of the double conclusion) “to control women’s behavior”? Is the issue in Judges 19 “male ownership of women’s