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A theological introduction, exegesis, and reflection on the teaching of Judges for audiences today. Judges is a book for our time. It forces readers to come face to face with fact that faith speaks into the topics and situations we deal with or read about in our newsfeeds. Matters of warfare, authoritarianism, sexual exploitation, and tribalism—these are a few of the repercussions from not...

for understanding Israel’s attraction to Canaanite religion, the implications of which are worth exploring further. Speaking about the universal human activity of culture-making, the sociologist Philip Rieff makes an intriguing and profound claim. He maintains that the inevitable human task of making culture involves the translation of a sacred order into an order for society.71 In other words, the particularities of a given society’s social order (government, justice system, family structure, economy,
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