Mayes A. Judges

Sheffield Academic Press, 1985. — 98 p. — (Old Testament Guides)In this masterly introduction to the book of Judges by an acknowledged authority on the material, the student is offered a guide to the main issues of interpretation, including the writing of history in Judges, the Deuteronomistic context, the structure of the book and its origin. The considerable amount of recent work on the social context of early Israel is reviewed, and comparison made with what we learn from the Ugarit and Alalakh texts. Annotated bibliographies and indexes make this an indispensable volume for the student.