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The Triumph of Irony in the Book of Judges focuses on the literary quality of the book of Judges. Klein extrapolates the theme of irony in the book of Judges, seeking to prove that it is the main structural element. She points out how this literary device adds to the overall meaning and tone of the book, and what it reveals about the culture of the time. Chronologically divided into sections,...

quality which leads to the narrative consequences of that episode and contributes to the resolution of the book. James Martin notes that the book extends the image of local battles to include all of Israel, which could not have been politically unified (1975:6–7); I, instead, submit a spiritual entity had evolved in the desert. George E. Mendenhall finds that ‘early Israel until the establishment of the Monarchy actually constituted the sovereignity of Yahweh as the functional system that enabled
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