Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Chapter 1 - Looking at Judges 9 Through Multiple Sight Lines Chapter 2 - Approaches to Abimelech and Judges 9 Chapter 3 - Narrative Analysis of Judges 9 Chapter 4 - Reading the Rhetoric of Judges 9 Chapter 5 - The Social World(s) of Judges 9 Chapter 6 - Conclusion Bibliography Index

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This book explores the portrayal of the rise, reign, and demise of Abimelech in Judges 9 and asks about whose interests this portrayal may have served.

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This book explores the portrayal of the rise, reign, and demise of Abimelech in Judges 9 and asks about whose interests this portrayal may have served.

About the Author

Gordon Oeste is the Associate Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Heritage Theological Seminary, Cambridge, Ontario.

Reviews

[The book's] strong attempt to weld three methodologies together is to be commended and copied. Its emphasis on attempts at delegitimization of Abimelech is welcome. Its search for an implied audience early in Israel's history joins the work of several of us in seeking a wholeness to Judges directed to the early monarchy. Showing how each method may point to this setting for the book is commendable...Welcome Gordon Oeste into the guild of Judges scholars by reading his book and providing helpful critique that will push the study of Judges further through use of every available methodology. * Review of Biblical Literature *
...a refreshing and valuable contribution to the study of the story of Abimelech. Indeed, the time may come when [Oeste]'s book will be counted among the seminal publications that paved the way toward recovering a measure of consistency in the political agenda of Judges. -- Serge Frolov, Southern Methodist University, USA * The Catholic Biblical Quarterly *