Bibliography on Judges

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Alonso-Schökel, L. “Erzählkunst im Buche der Richter.” Bib 42 (1961): 143–72.

Alter, R. The Art of Biblical Narrative. New York: Basic Books, 1981.

Alter, R., and F. Kermode, eds. The Literary Guide to the Bible. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1987.

Amit, Y. “Judges 4: Its Contents and Form.” JSOT 39 (1987): 89–111.

———. “The Story of Ehud (Judges 3:12–30): The Form and the Message.” Pp. 97–123 in Signs and Wonders: Biblical Texts in Literary Focus. Ed. J. C. Exum. Decatur, Ga.: Scholars, 1989.

Auld, A. G. “Gideon: Hacking at the Heart of the Old Testament.” VT 39 (1989): 257–67.

———. Joshua, Judges, and Ruth. The Daily Study Bible. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1984.

Bal, M. Murder and Difference: Gender, Genre, and Scholarship on Sisera’s Death. Trans. by M. Gumpert. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1988.

Barré, M. L. “The Meaning of pršdn in Judges iii.22.” VT 41 (1991): 1–11.

Beem, B. “The Minor Judges: A Literary Reading of Some Very Short Stories.” Pp. 147–72 in The Canon in Comparative Perspective: Scripture in Context IV. Ed. K. L. Younger Jr., W. W. Hallo, and B. F. Batto. ANETS 11. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen, 1991.

Beyerlin, W. “Gattung und Herkunft des Rahmens im Richtersbuch.” Pp. 6–7 in Tradition und Situation: Studien zur alttestamentlichen Prophetie; Festschrift A. Weiser. Ed. E. Würthwein and O. Kaiser. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1963.

Block, D. I. “Echo Narrative Technique in Hebrew Literature: A Study of Judges 19.” WTJ 52 (1990): 325–41.

———. “Empowered by the Spirit of God: The Work of the Holy Spirit in the Historiographic Writings of the Old Testament.” SBJT 1 (1997): 42–61.

———. The Foundations of National Identity: A Study in Ancient Northwest Semitic Perspectives. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms, 1983.

———. “ ‘Israel’—‘Sons of Israel’: A Study in Hebrew Eponymic Usage.” Studies in Religion 13 (1984): 301–26.

———. Judges, Ruth. NAC 6. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 1999.

———. “The Period of the Judges: Religious Disintegration Under Tribal Rule.” Pp. 41–45 in Israel’s Apostasy and Restoration: Essays in Honor of Roland K. Harrison. Ed. A. Gileadi. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1988.

Boling, R. G. Judges: Introduction, Translation and Commentary. AB 6A. Garden City: N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975.

———. “Judges, Book of.” ABD, 3:1107–17.

Brenner, A. “A Triangle and a Rhombus in Narrative Structure: A Proposed Integrative Reading of Judges IV and V.” VT 40 (1990): 129–38.

Brettler, M. Z. “The Book of Judges: Literature as Politics.” JBL 108 (1989): 395–418.

———. The Creation of History in Ancient Israel. London and New York: Routledge, 1995.

Browne, E. “Samson: Riddle and Paradox.” TBT 22 (1984): 161–67.

Brueggemann, W. “Social Criticism and Social Vision in the Deuteronomic Formula of Judges.” Pp. 101–14 in Die Botschaft und die Boten: Festschrift für Hans Walter Wolff zum 70. Geburtstag. Ed. J. Jeremias and L. Perlitt. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1981.

Burney, C. F. The Book of Judges with Introduction and Notes. 1st ed. 1903; 2d ed. 1920. Repr., New York: Ktav, 1970.

Cahill, J., et al., “It Had to Happen—Scientists Examine Remains of Ancient Bathroom.” BAR 17 (May/June 1991): 64–69.

Campbell, E. F., Jr. “Judges 9 and Archaeology.” Pp. 263–67 in Essays in Honor of David Noel Freedman in Celebration of his Sixtieth Birthday. Ed. C. Meyers and M. O’Connor. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1983.

———. Shechem II: Portrait of a Hill Country Vale. ASOR Archaeology Reports 2. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1991.

Chalcraft, D. J. “Deviance and Legitimate Action in the Book of Judges.” Pp. 177–207 in The Bible in Three Dimensions: Essays in Celebration of Forty Years of Biblical Studies in the University of Sheffield. Ed. D. J. A. Clines, S. E. Fowl, and S. E. Porter. JSOTSup 87. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1990.

Childs, B. S. Introduction to the Old Testament As Scripture. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1979.

Coogan, M. D. “A Structural and Literary Analysis of the Song of Deborah.” CBQ 40 (1978): 143–66.

Craigie, P. C. The Problem of War in the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1978.

———. “A Reconsideration of Shamgar Ben Anath (Judg 3:31 and 5:6).” JBL 91 (1972): 239–40.

Crenshaw, J. L. Samson: A Secret Betrayed, a Vow Ignored. Macon, Ga.: Mercer Univ. Press, 1978.

Cundall, A. E. Judges: An Introduction and Commentary. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1968.

Dearman, J. A. “Baal in Israel: The Contribution of Some Place Names and Personal Names to an Understanding of Early Israelite Religion.” Pp. 173–91 in History and Interpretation: Essays in Honour of John H. Hayes. Ed. M. P. Graham, W. P. Brown, and J. K. Kuan. JSOTSup 173. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993.

Dumbrell, W. J. “ ‘In Those Days There Was No King in Israel; Every Man Did What Was Right in His Own Eyes’: The Purpose of the Book of Judges Reconsidered.” JSOT 25 (1983): 23–33.

Emerton, J. A. “Some Comments on the Shibboleth Incident (Judges XII 6).” Pp. 149–57 in Mélanges bibliques et orientaux en l’honneur de M. Mathias Delcor. Ed. A. Caquot, S. Légasse, and M. Tardie. AOAT 215. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1985.

Eshel, H., and Z. Erlich, “Abimelech’s First Battle with the Lords of Shechem and the Question of the Navel of the Land.” Tarbiz 58 (1988–89): 111–16.

Exum, J. C. “Aspects of Symmetry and Balance in the Samson Saga.” JSOT 19 (1981): 3–29.

———. “The Centre Cannot Hold: Thematic and Textual Instabilities in Judges.” CBQ 52 (1990): 410–31.

———. “Feminist Criticism: Whose Interests Are Being Served?” Pp. 65–90 in Judges and Method: New Approaches in Biblical Studies. Ed. G. A. Yee. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995.

———. “Literary Patterns in the Samson Saga: An Investigation of Rhetorical Style in Biblical Prose.” Ph.D. diss. Columbia University, 1976.

———. “Promise and Fulfillment: Narrative Art in Judges 13.” JBL 99 (1980): 43–59.

Faber, A. “Second Harvest: šibbōleṭ Revisited (Yet Again).” JSS 37 (1992): 1–10.

Fensham, F. C. “Literary Observations on Historical Narratives in Sections of Judges.” Pp. 77–88 in Storia e tradizioni di Israele: Scitti in onore di J. Alberto Soggin. Ed. D. Garrone and F. Israel. Brescia: Paideia, 1991.

———. “Shamgar ben Anath.” JNES 20 (1961): 197–98.

Fewell, D. N. “Judges.” Pp. 67–77 in The Women’s Bible Commentary. Ed. C. A. Newsom and S. H. Ringe. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1992.

Fewell, D. N., and D. M. Gunn, “Controlling Perspectives: Women, Men and the Authority of Violence in Judges 4 and 5.” JAAR 58 (1990): 389–411.

Fields, W. W. “The Motif ‘Night As Danger’ Associated with Three Biblical Destruction Narratives.” Pp. 17–32 in Shaʿarei Talmon”: Studies in the Bible, Qumran, and the Ancient Near East Presented to Shemaryahu Talmon. Ed. M. Fishbane and E. Tov with W. W. Fields. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1992.

Fishbane, M. Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel. Oxford: Clarendon, 1986.

Fleming, D. E. “The Etymological Origins of the Hebrew nābîʾ: The One Who Invokes God.” CBQ 55 (1993): 217–24.

Fokkelman, J. P. “The Song of Deborah and Barak: Its Prosodic Levels and Structure.” Pp. 595–628 in Pomegranates and Golden Bells: Studies in Biblical, Jewish, and Near Eastern Ritual, Law, and Literature in Honor of Jacob Milgrom. Ed. D. P. Wright, D. N. Freedman, and A. Hurvitz. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1995.

———. “Structural Remarks on Judges 9 and 19.” Pp. 33–45 in Shaʿarei Talmon”: Studies in the Bible, Qumran, and the Ancient Near East Presented to Shemaryahu Talmon. Ed. M. Fishbane and E. Tov with W. W. Fields. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1992.

Fowler, M. “A Closer Look at the Temple of El-Berith at Shechem.” PEQ 115 (1983): 49–53.

Freedman, D. N. “A Note on Judges 15, 5.” Bib 52 (1971): 535.

Freeman, J. A. “Samson’s Dry Bones: A Structural Reading of Judges 13–16.” Pp. 145–60 in vol. 2 of Literary Interpretations of Biblical Narratives. Ed. K. R. R. Gros Louis. 2 vols. Nashville: Abingdon, 1974, 1982.

Gal, Z. “The Settlement of Issachar: Some New Observations.” Tel Aviv 9 (1982): 79–86.

Garsiel, M. Biblical Names: A Literary Study of Midrashic Deriviations and Puns. Trans. P. Hackett. Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan Univ. Press, 1991.

Gebrandt, G. E. Kingship According to the Deuteronomistic History. SBLDS 87. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1986.

Gevirtz, S. “Jericho and Shechem: A Religio-Literary Aspect of City Destruction.” VT 13 (1963): 52–62.

Gooding, D. W. “The Composition of the Book of Judges.” Pp. 70–79 in H. M. Orlinsky Memorial Volume. Eretz Israel 16. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1982.

Görg, M. “Zu den Kleiderbezeichnungen in Ri 14, 12f.” BN 68 (1993): 5–9.

Goslinga, C. J. Joshua, Judges, Ruth. Bible Student’s Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1986.

Gray, J. Joshua, Judges and Ruth. NCB. London: Thomas Nelson, 1967. Greenspahn, F. E. “The Theology of the Framework of Judges.” VT 36 (1986): 385–96.

Greenstein, E. L. “The Riddle of Samson.” Prooftexts 1/3 (1981): 237–60.

Gros Louis, K. R. R. “The Book of Judges.” Pp. 141–62 in vol. 1 of Literary Interpretations of Biblical Narratives. Ed. K. R. R. Gros Louis. 2 vols. Nashville: Abingdon, 1974, 1982.

Grottanelli, C. “Aspetti simbolici del latte nella bibbia.” Pp. 381–97 in Drinking in Ancient Societies: History and Culture of Drinks in the Ancient Near East. Papers of a Symposium Held in Rome, May 17–19, 1990. Ed. L. Milano. Padova: Sargon, 1994.

———. “The Story of Deborah and Barak: A Comparative Approach.” Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni N.S. 11 (1987): 311–16.

Gunn, D. M. “Joshua and Judges.” Pp. 102–21 in The Literary Guide to the Bible. Ed. R. Alter and F. Kermode. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1987.

Gunn, D. M., and D. N. Fewell. Narrative in the Hebrew Bible. The Oxford Bible Series. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1993.

Hadley, J. M. “The Fertility of the Flock? The De-Personalization of Astarte in the Old Testament.” Pp. 115–33 in On Reading Prophetic Texts: Gender-Specific and Related Studies in Memory of Fokkelien van Dijk-Hemmes. Ed. B. Becking and M. Dijkstra. Biblical Interpretation Series 18. Leiden: Brill, 1996.

Halpern, B. The First Historians: The Hebrew Bible and History. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988.

Handy, L. K. “Uneasy Laughter: Ehud and Eglon and Ethnic Humor.” SJOT 6 (1992): 233–46.

Hauser, A. J. “The ‘Minor Judges’—A Re-evaluation.” JBL 94 (1975): 190–200.

———. “Two Songs of Victory: A Comparison of Exodus 15 and Judges 5.” Pp. 265–84 in Directions in Biblical Hebrew Poetry. Ed. E. Follis. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1987.

———. “Unity and Diversity in Early Israel Before Samuel.” JETS 22 (1979): 289–303.

Hendel, R. “Aniconism and Anthropomorphism in Ancient Israel.” Pp. 205–28 in The Image and the Book: Iconic Cults, Aniconism, and the Veneration of the Holy Book in Israel and the Ancient Near East. Ed. K. van der Toorn. Kampen: Kok, 1999.

Henry, C. F. H. Twilight of a Great Civilization: The Drift Toward Neo-Paganism. Westchester, Ill.: Crossway, 1988.

Hess, R. S. “Asherah or Asherata?” Or 65 (1996): 209–19.

———. Joshua. An Introduction and Commentary. TOTC. Leicester: Inter-Varsity, 1996.

———. “Non-Israelite Personal Names in the Narratives of the Book of Joshua.” CBQ 58 (1996): 205–14.

———. “Yahweh and His Asherah? Religious Pluralism in the Old Testament World.” Pp. 13–42 in One God, One Lord: Christianity in a World of Religious Pluralism. Ed. A. D. Clarke and B. W. Winter. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993.

Hoffmeier, J. K. Egypt in Israel: The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Exodus Tradition. New York/Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1997.

Howard, D. M., Jr. “Philistines.” Pp. 231–50 in Peoples of the Old Testament World. Ed. A. J. Hoerth et al. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1994.

Hübner, U. “Mord auf dem Abort? Überlegungen zu Humor, Gewaltdarstellung und Realienkunde in Ri 3, 12–30.” BN 40 (1987): 130–40.

Hudson, D. M. “Living in a Land of Epithets: Anonymity in Judges 19–21.” JSOT 62 (1994): 49–66.

Kallai, Z. “The Twelve-Tribe Systems of Israel.” VT 47 (1997): 53–90.

Kaufmann, Y. The Book of Judges. Jerusalem: Kiryat Sepher, 1962 (Hebrew).

Klein, L. R. The Triumph of Irony in the Book of Judges. BLS 14. Sheffield: Almond, 1988.

Kraeling, E. G. H. “Difficulties in the Story of Ehud.” JBL 54 (1935): 205–10.

Lambert, F. “Tribal Influences in Old Testament Tradition.” SEÅ 59 (1994): 33–58.

Lasine, S. “Guest and Host in Judges 19: Lot’s Hospitality in an Inverted World.” JSOT 29 (1984): 37–59.

Layton, S. Archaic Features of Canaanite Names in the Hebrew Bible. HSM 47. Atlanta: Scholars, 1990.

Lewis, T. J. “The Identity and Function of El/Baal Berith.” JBL 115 (1996): 401–23.

Lilley, J. P. U. “A Literary Appreciation of the Book of Judges.” TynBul 17 (1967): 94–102.

———. “Understanding the ḥerem.” TynBul 44 (1993): 169–77.

Lindars, B. “Deborah’s Song: Women in the Old Testament.” BJRL 65 (1982–93): 158–75.

———. Judges 1–5: A New Translation and Commentary. Ed. A. D. H. Mayes. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1995.

Longman, T., III. Literary Approaches to Biblical Interpretation. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1987.

Mafico, T. L. J. “Judge, Judging.” ABD, 3:1104–5.

Maisler, B. “Shamgar ben ʿAnat.” PEQ 66 (1934): 192–94.

Malamat, A. “The Period of the Judges.” Pp. 129–63 in Judges. Ed. B. Mazar. WHJP 3. Tel Aviv: Jewish History Publications, 1971.

Marcus, D. “The Bargaining Between Jephthah and the Elders (Judges 11:4–11).” JANES 19 (1989): 95–110.

———. Jephthah and His Vow. Lubbock: Texas Tech Univ. Press, 1986.

———. “The Legal Dispute Between Jephthah and the Elders.” HAR 12 (1990): 107–11.

———. “Ridiculing the Ephraimites: The Shibboleth Incident (Judg 12:6).” Maarav 8 (1992): 95–105.

Marius, J. Representation in Old Testament Narrative Texts. Leiden: Brill, 1998.

Martin, J. D. The Book of Judges. CBC. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1975.

Mazar, A. “Bronze Bull Found in Israelite ‘High Place’ From the Time of the Judges.” BAR 9 (September/October 1983): 34–40.

———. “The Bull Site—An Iron Age I Open Cult Place.” BASOR 247 (1982): 27–42.

McConville, J. G. Grace in the End: A Study in Deuteronomic Theology. SOTBT. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1993.

McKenzie, S. L. “Deuteronomistic History.” ABD, 2:160–68.

Millard, A. R. “Back to the Iron Bed: Og’s or Procrustes?” Pp. 193–203 in Congress Volume: Paris 1992. Ed. J. A. Emerton. VTSup 61. Leiden: Brill, 1995.

Miller, G. P. “Verbal Feud in the Hebrew Bible: Judges 3:12–30 and 19–21.” JNES 55 (1996): 105–17.

Moore, G. F. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Judges. ICC. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1895.

Mosca, P. G. “Who Seduced Whom? A Note on Joshua 15:18//Judges 1:14.” CBQ 46 (1984): 18–22.

Mullen, E. T., Jr. “Judges 1:1–36: The Deuteronomistic Reintroduction of the Book of Judges.” HTR 77 (1984): 33–54.

———. “The ‘Minor Judge’: Some Literary and Historical Considerations.” CBQ 44 (1982): 185–201.

Murray, D. F. “Narrative Structure and Technique in the Deborah-Barak Story, Judges iv 4–22.” Pp. 155–89 in Studies in the Historical Books of the Old Testament. Ed. J. A. Emerton. VTSup 30. Leiden: Brill, 1979.

Neef, H.-D. “Der Stil des Deboraliedes (Ri 5).” ZAH 8 (1995): 275–93.

Niditch, S. “Samson As Culture Hero, Trickster, and Bandit: The Empowerment of the Weak.” CBQ 52 (1990): 608–24.

———. “The ‘Sodomite’ Theme in Judges 19–20: Family, Community, and Social Disintegration.” CBQ 44 (1982): 365–78.

Noort, E. “Joshua 24, 28–31, Richter 2, 6–9 und das Josuagrab: Gedanken zu einem Strassenbild.” Pp. 109–33 in Biblische Welten: Festschrift für Martin Metzger zu seinem 65. Geburtstag. Ed. W. Zwickel. OBO 123. Fribourg: Edition universitaires/Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1993.

O’Brien, M. A. “Judges and the Deuteronomistic History.” Pp. 235–59 in The History of Israel’s Traditions: The Heritage of Martin Noth. Ed. S. L. McKenzie and M. P. Graham. JSOTSup 182. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994.

O’Connell, R. H. “Deuteronomy vii 1–26: Asymmetrical Concentricity and the Rhetoric of Conquest.” VT 42 (1992): 248–65.

———. The Rhetoric of the Book of Judges. VTSup 63. Leiden: Brill, 1996.

O’Connor, M. “The Women in the Book of Judges.” HAR 10 (1986): 277–93.

Ogden, G. S. “Jotham’s Fable: Its Structure and Function in Judges 9.” BT 46 (1995): 301–8.

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Provan, I. “To Highlight All Our Idols: Worshipping God in Nietzsche’s World.” Ex Auditu 15 (1999): 19–42.

Rainey, A. F. “The Military Camp Ground at Taanach by the Waters of Megiddo.” ErIsr 15 (1981): 61*–66*.

———. “Toponymic Problems.” Tel Aviv 10 (1983): 46–48.

———. “Who Is a Canaanite?” BASOR 304 (1996): 1–15.

Revell, E. J. “The Battle with Benjamin (Judges xx 29–48) and Hebrew Narrative Techniques.” VT 35 (1985): 417–33.

Rosner, B. “Soul Idolatry: Greed As Idolatry in the Bible.” Ex Auditu 15 (1999): 73–86.

Sasson, J. M. “Who Cut Samson’s Hair? (And Other Trifling Issues Raised by Judges 16).” Prooftexts 8 (1988): 334–35.

Satterthwaite, P. E. “Narrative Artistry in the Composition of Judges xx 29ff.” VT 42 (1992): 80–89.

———. “ ‘No King in Israel’: Narrative Criticism and Judges 17–21.” TynBul 44 (1993): 75–88.

Schäfer-Lichtenberger, C. “Bedeutung und Funktion von ḥērem in biblisch-hebräischen Texten.” BZ 38 (1994): 270–75.

Schlossberg, H. Idols for Destruction: Christian Faith and Its Confrontation with American Society. Nashville: Nelson, 1983.

Shupak, N. “New Light on Shamgar ben ʿAnath.” Bib 70 (1989): 517–25.

Smelik, W. F. The Targum of Judges. OTS 36. Leiden: Brill, 1995.

Soggin, J. A. “ʾEhud und ʿEglon: Bemerkingen zu Richter iii 11b–31.” VT 29 (1989): 95–100.

———. Judges: A Commentary. Trans. J. Bowden. OTL 7. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1981.

Stager, L. E. “Archaeology, Ecology, and Social History: Background Themes to the Song of Deborah.” Pp. 221–33 in Congress Volume: Jerusalem, 1986. Ed. J. A. Emerton. VTSup 40. Leiden: Brill, 1988.

———. “Shemer’s Estate.” BASOR 277/278 (1990): 93–108.

Streck, M. P., and St. Weninger, “Zur Deutung des hebräischen Namens ʿOṯnīʾēl.” BN 96 (1999): 21–29.

Sweeney, M. A. “Davidic Polemics in the Book of Judges.” VT 47 (1997): 517–29.

Tanner, J. P. “The Gideon Narrative As the Focal Point of Judges.” BSac 149 (1992): 146–61.

———. “Textual Patterning in Biblical Hebrew Narrative: A Case Study in Judges 6–8.” Ph.D. diss. University of Texas, Austin, 1990.

Taylor, J. G. “The Bible and Homosexuality.” Themelios 21/1 (1995): 4–9.

Trible, P. Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives. OBT. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984.

Waldman, N. M. “The Imagery of Clothing, Covering, and Overpowering.” JANES 19 (1989): 161–70.

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Webb, B. G. The Book of the Judges: An Integrated Reading. JSOTSup 46. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1987.

———. “A Serious Reading of the Samson Story (Judges 13–16).” RTR 54 (1995): 110–20.

Westbrook, R. Property and the Family in Biblical Law. JSOTSup 113. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1991.

Wilcock, M. The Message of Judges. BST. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1992.

Willis, T. M. “The Nature of Jephthah’s Authority.” CBQ 59 (1997): 33–44.

Wilson, M. K. “As You Like It: The Idolatry of Micah and the Danites (Judges 17–18).” RTR 54 (1995): 73–85.

Wolf, Herbert. “Judges.” Pp. 375–506 in The Expositor’s Bible Commentary, vol. 3. Ed. F. E. Gaebelein. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1992.

Yee, G. “By the Hand of a Woman: The Metaphor of the Woman Warrior in Judges 4.” Semeia 61 (1993): 99–132.

———. “Ideological Criticism: Judges 17–21 and the Dismembered Body.” Pp. 146–70 in Judges and Method: New Approaches in Biblical Studies. Ed. G. A. Yee. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995.

Younger, K. L., Jr. Ancient Conquest Accounts: A Study in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical History Writing. JSOTSup 98. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1990.

———. “The Configuring of Judicial Preliminaries: Judges 1:1–2:5 and Its Dependence on the Book of Joshua.” JSOT 68 (1995): 75–92.

———. “Early Israel in Recent Biblical Scholarship.” Pp. 176–206 in The Face of Old Testament Studies: A Survey of Contemporary Approaches. Ed. D. W. Baker and B. T. Arnold. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1999.

———. “Heads! Tails! Or the Whole Coin?! Contextual Method and Intertextual Analysis: Judges 4 and 5.” Pp. 109–45 in The Canon in Comparative Perspective: Scripture in Context IV. Ed. K. L. Younger, W. W. Hallo, and B. F. Batto; Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen, 1991.

———. “Judges 1 in Its Near Eastern Literary Context.” Pp. 207–27 in Faith, Tradition, History: Essays on Old Testament Historiography in Its Near Eastern Context. Ed. A. R. Millard, J. K. Hoffmeier, and A. D. Baker. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1994.

Zakovitch, Y. “The Sacrifice of Gideon (Jud 6, 11–24) and the Sacrifice of Manoah (Jud 13).” Shnaton 1 (1975): 151–54; xxv (Hebrew; English summary).