Judges describes a new hour in the history of Israel. Remember, Israel had come from a long era of bondage in Egypt to a period of 40 years when she lived in tents and wandered in the wilderness. Now the march was over. The nomads were to become settlers in a land of their own. The book of Judges is in a way another book of beginnings where we see a new nation adjusting to her national life. It is filled, not only with struggles and disasters, but also with the moral courage of a select few. Someone