Family and Identity in the Book of Judges.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Family and Identity in Judges -- 1.2 Accessing Ancient Cultural Identities -- 1.3 Overview of the Volume -- 1.4 The Cultural Meaning of Judges -- Chapter 2 Identity -- 2.1 Is Identity a Heuristically Useful Concept? -- 2.1.1 Practice and Analysis -- 2.1.2 Subjective Introspection -- 2.1.3 Identity or Ethnicity? -- 2.2 Ethnicity and Identity -- 2.2.1 Ethnicity is Found in Marking Differences -- 2.2.2 Ethnicity is Based on Shared Memories -- 2.2.3 Ethnicity is Linked to Territory -- 2.2.4 Ethnicity is Largely Subjective -- 2.3 The Identity Dialectic -- 2.3.1 Me and Others: Identity's Duality -- 2.3.2 Me with Others: Identity and Behavioural Norms -- 2.3.3 Me and Us and Them: Identity's Double Standards -- 2.4 Identity in Judges -- Chapter 3 Landscapes and Memories -- 3.1 The Social Landscapes of Judges -- 3.1.1 Discerning the Setting(s) for Judges -- 3.1.2 Levantine Social Landscapes: Late Bronze and Iron Age -- 3.1.3 Layers of Social Landscapes: Near and Far -- 3.1.4 Family and Settlement -- 3.1.5 Local Identity in Judges -- 3.2 Whose Past, Which Culture? -- 3.2.1 Memories of Israel -- 3.2.2 Stories and the Sharing of Memory -- 3.2.3 Meaning and Facts -- Past and Present -- 3.2.4 Defusing a Conflict of Memories -- 3.3 Family and Identity in Iron Age Israel -- Chapter 4 Abimelech and Jephthah -- 4.1 Two Leaders, Two Portrayals: One Framework -- 4.1.1 Abimelech -- 4.1.2 Jephthah -- 4.1.3 Accommodative Literary Sensitivity -- 4.2 Abimelech and Jephthah in Scholarship -- 4.2.1 Abimelech -- 4.2.2 Jephthah -- 4.3 Ascribed and Achieved Status -- 4.3.1 The Politics of Chiefs -- 4.3.2 Chiefs and Israel's Social Landscape -- 4.4 The Politics of Abimelech and Jephthah -- 4.4.1 The Rise and Fall of Abimelech -- 4.4.2 Jephthah's Social Restoration -- 4.5 Concluding Remarks.

Chapter 5 Samson and the Timnites -- 5.1 The Samson Cycle: Setting and Framework -- 5.2 Samson in Scholarship -- 5.2.1 Stretching a Literary Framework -- 5.2.2 Exegesis at the Margins: Samson's Liminality -- 5.2.3 Interpreting Samson's Wedding (Judg 14) -- 5.3 Weddings and their Traditions -- 5.3.1 The Ideal of Autonomy -- 5.3.2 The Reality of Marriage -- 5.3.3 Negotiating the Ideal and the Reality -- 5.3.4 Wedding Customs: Samson's Riddle -- 5.3.5 The Socio-political Landscape -- 5.4 The Legend of Samson's (Local) Wedding -- 5.4.1 So, Who Disapproves of the Marriage? -- 5.4.2 Customary Differences and an Ice-breaking Game -- 5.4.3 The Consequences of Social Illiteracy -- 5.5 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 6 Sisera and Jael -- 6.1 Frame and Folklore -- 6.1.1 Temporary Associations and Fluctuating Loyalties -- 6.1.2 Jael's Motivations -- 6.2 Jael in Scholarship -- 6.2.1 Poetic Prose or Prosaic Poetry? -- 6.2.2 Gender, Eroticism and Hospitality -- 6.3 Who and Where? -- 6.3.1 Social Space -- 6.3.2 A Woman's Place -- 6.4 Why does Jael kill Sisera? -- 6.4.1 Jael's Family -- 6.4.2 Crossing the Social Threshold -- 6.4.3 Pinning Sisera Down -- 6.5 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 7 Gibeah and The Levite -- 7.1 Folklore Without a Frame -- 7.1.1 A Tale of Four Tribes -- 7.1.2 A Tale of Two Scenes -- 7.2 The Gibeah Outrage in Scholarship -- 7.2.1 Scholarship's Interpretative Tropes -- 7.2.2 Exegesis in View of the Narrative Diptych -- 7.3 Hospitality and its Graciousness -- 7.3.1 The Gift -- 7.3.2 Reciprocity with a Stranger -- 7.3.3 Known Unknowns -- 7.3.4 Social Landscapes -- 7.3.5 Social Roles -- 7.4 The Gibeah Outrage -- 7.4.1 Introducing the Characters -- 7.4.2 Narrative Development: Two Contrasting Scenes -- 7.4.3 A Family Gathering: Judg 19:3-9 -- 7.4.4 Who Will Welcome a Stranger? Judg 19:14-21 -- 7.4.5 The Challenge of Gibeah: Judg 19:22.

7.4.6 Reversion to Elementary Structures: Judg 19:23-28 -- 7.5 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 8 Postscript -- 8.1 The Value of Biblical Research -- 8.2 A Sequence of Exegetical Questions -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Subjects.

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