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
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.
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.
Gordon Oeste is the Associate Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Heritage Theological Seminary, Cambridge, Ontario.
[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.
*The Catholic Biblical Quarterly*
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