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.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsChapter 1 - Looking at Judges 9 Through Multiple Sight LinesChapter 2 - Approaches to Abimelech and Judges 9Chapter 3 - Narrative Analysis of Judges 9Chapter 4 - Reading the Rhetoric of Judges 9Chapter 5 - The Social World(s) of Judges 9Chapter 6 - ConclusionBibliographyIndex

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.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsChapter 1 - Looking at Judges 9 Through Multiple Sight LinesChapter 2 - Approaches to Abimelech and Judges 9Chapter 3 - Narrative Analysis of Judges 9Chapter 4 - Reading the Rhetoric of Judges 9Chapter 5 - The Social World(s) of Judges 9Chapter 6 - ConclusionBibliographyIndex

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.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsChapter 1 - Looking at Judges 9 Through Multiple Sight LinesChapter 2 - Approaches to Abimelech and Judges 9Chapter 3 - Narrative Analysis of Judges 9Chapter 4 - Reading the Rhetoric of Judges 9Chapter 5 - The Social World(s) of Judges 9Chapter 6 - ConclusionBibliographyIndex