Dismembering the Whole: Composition and Purpose of Judges 19-21 (Paperback) by Cynthia Edenburg

9781628371246. New condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 440. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 440 p. Ancient Israel and Its Literature, 24. "The Book of Judges ends with a bizarre narrative of sex and violence that starts with a domestic tiff and ends with the decimation of a tribe that is restored by means of abduction and rape. Cynthia Edenburg applies a fresh literary analysis, recent understandings of historical linguistics, and historical geography in her exploration of the origin of the anti-Benjamin polemic found in Judges 19-21, the growth and provenance of the book of Judges, and the shape of the Deuteronomistic History. Her study exposes how Judges 19-21 functions as political polemic reflecting not the pre-monarchic period but instead the historical realities of the settlement of Benjamin during the Babylonian and Persian period"--