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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...

sacred order of Canaanite religion that Gideon the king de facto should build a shrine in his home city, that he should act capriciously and in self-interest after the manner of the gods, that he should accumulate a vast royal treasure and sizable harem (8:18–35), and so on.74 Moreover, it would seem in keeping with Canaanite values that King Abimelech should kill his seventy brothers to eliminate any threat to his “rightful” claim to the throne. The sacred order of Canaanite religion prompted Jephthah
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