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Julian C. Chike - Rediscovering the 'Judge' of Israel in Judah's Bible, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Rediscovering the 'Judge' of Israel in Judah's Bible

Origin, Transmission, and Reception

Av Julian C. Chike

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Why are the leaders of early Israel called 'Judges'? What does this institution refer to and where did it come from? How was it appropriated, transformed, and reconceptualized in the Hebrew Bible? To answer these questions, Julian Chike offers an analysis of new data, a re-evaluation of previous data in light of new data, and, more importantly, a new framework for using second millennium BCE sources from the ancient Near East to rediscover the 'Judge' of Israel in Judah's Bible. Rather than reflecting scribal invention or later borrowing, Chike proposes that the 'Judge' of Israel stands in cultural continuity with an ancient form of leadership called šāpit-um which stems from the Amorite world most clearly depicted in the Mari documents. The findings of this study invite a re-evaluation of compositional and historical claims surrounding Israel's origin stories and stimulate further conversation about Amorite relations to the inhabitants of early Israel.
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Julian C. Chike is an Assistant Professor Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in the Department of Religion at Baylor University. His research focuses on the textual development of the Hebrew Bible (especially Deuteronomy through 2 Kings) and comparative study of the cultures, histories, and languages of the ancient Near East.

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'This is a remarkable work. Chike's image of a 'palimpsest of political history' brilliantly explains the cultural continuity of Israel's 'judge' with its precursors in the ancient world. In the process, he calls into question current trends in scholarship that understand the 'judge' of early Israel as a product of much later scribal innovations. Chike's contribution is monumental and cannot be ignored by scholars and all interested readers of the Hebrew Bible.' Bill T. Arnold, Amos Professor of Old Testament Interpretation, Asbury Theological Seminary

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