Judges and Saviors, Deborah and Samson (eBook)

Reflections of a World in Chaos

Hillel I. Millgram (Autor)

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2018
628 Seiten
Hamilton Books (Verlag)
9780761869900 (ISBN)

Infos

The book is an in-depth, reader friendly analysis of the Book of Judges, one of the most dramatic books of the Bible. This study argues that the Book of Judges has a single focused message: that it is the values held by a people and not its politics that determine its fate.

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This is a book about a book: it is an in-depth yet reader friendly analysis of the Book of Judges, one of the most dramatic books of the Bible. Against the commonly-held view that this remarkable work is no more than a collection of hero tales stemming from Israel's earliest days in its land-its "e;Heroic Age,"e; so to speak-this study makes the case that the Book of Judges is a unified composition with a single focused message: that it is the values held by a people and not its politics that determine its fate. Further, Judges contends that there is a direct connection between the kind of values people internalize and the level of violence that racks their society, both inflicted from without and generated from within. And not least, that the presence of violence is a symptom that a society has abandoned the moral values of monotheism for the Machiavellian politics of a pagan worldview that worships power as the ultimate reality. The larger-than-life heroes and heroines-Ehud and Jael, Deborah and Gideon, Jephthah and Samson-who people the pages of Judges serve by their example to illustrate the way this thesis works out in the world.

Autor

Hillel I. Millgram has served in pulpits in the United States and Canada before settling in Jerusalem where, for the last twenty years, he has pursued a career of research and writing while teaching graduate courses in Bible.

Inhalt

AbbreviationsList of MapsPreface and Acknowledgements IntroductionPrologue: Setting the StageForeword: A Flawed Follow-UpChapter 1: Getting Our BearingsChapter 2: The View from OlympusPart I: The First Saviors: Solo BeginningsChapter 3: A New Age DawnsChapter 4: The Left Hand of GodA Minor Interlude: ShamgarPart II: The Deborah DuetChapter 5: Canaan’s Last GaspChapter 6: Sing Muse, How the Enemies of the Lord are FallenPart III: The Gideon QuartetChapter 7: The Hewer of IdolsChapter 8: The Day of MidianChapter 9: NemesisChapter 10: The Man Who Would Be KingA Second Minor Interlude: Tola And JairPart IV: The Jephthah Quintet: A Tragedy in Five InstallmentsChapter 11: A Dialogue Twixt Heaven and EarthChapter 12: The Man from TobChapter 13: Giving Peace a ChanceChapter 14: Triumph and TragedyChapter 15: Into the Valley Of DeathFinal Minor Interlude: Ibzan, Elon and AbdonPart V: The Loose Cannon: The Samson SextetChapter 16: Introduction: The Tragedy Of SamsonChapter 17: Prologue: In the BeginningChapter 18: TimnahChapter 19: Vengeance Is MineChapter 20: The Way to Dusty DeathChapter 21: Unresolved DissonancesEpilogue: Has It Come To This?Chapter 22: Epilogue Part I: A Tale of Stolen SilverChapter 23: Epilogue Part II (A): Atrocity!Chapter 24: Epilogue Part II (B): Outrage!Chapter 25: Epilogue Part II (C): RestorationConclusionChapter 26: Olympus RevisitedAppendicesGlossary of Terms and Place NamesWho’s Who in JudgesSelected BibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.3.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 16 Illustrations including: - 15 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 1 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Schlagworte: Ancient Israel • biblical women • Deborah the prophetess • Ehud • Gideon • Jephthah’s daughter • Old Testament
• ISBN-13: 9780761869900 / 9780761869900