Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>]

Jonathan Safren wrote in part:
> You also can't be sure that the Judges ruled one after the other, i.e., 
> consecutively.
> Behind each Judges narrative stands the story of a local chieftain. Youu 
> can see that
> by which tribes participate in which wars. So it is more probable that many 
> of the
> Judges were contomporaneous.

My article on this topic in Bibliotheca Sacra (details are on my web 
page at www.nyx.net/~dwashbur/cv.html) shows that this was 
indeed the case.  There's a lot of overlap as well as a lot of regional 
activity.  Some will be annoyed that I implicitly take the Judges 
text as portraying real events, but that's their problem :-)  The part 
about the chronology may interest the participants in this part of 
the discussion.


Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
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