{"id":56552,"date":"2019-06-02T14:36:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T11:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=56552"},"modified":"2022-12-25T09:23:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T07:23:34","slug":"retrospective-on-judges-themes-and-variations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/retrospective-on-judges-themes-and-variations\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrospective on Judges: Themes And Variations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[429,837],"acf":{"old_id":"56552","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"2007","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Conquest, idolatry, salvation, depravity, anarchy","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In our comments over the last four chapters of the Book of Judges, we had occasion to report on the rabbinic view that the book does not maintain a strict chronological sequence and that the events described in its concluding section actually transpired at the very start of the era. Here, we should like to suggest that this is because an alternative organizational principle was utilized for the book: a thematic one. We are indebted to the authors and editors of the Da`at Mikra series for their inspiration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Part one, covering through 2:5, informs us that the source of all evils during this period was the neglect of Joshua\u2019s instructions to complete the conquest of the land and, paradoxically, forging alliances with the indigenous nations against whose company they were warned going back to Moses and the Torah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Part two, extending through chapter 16, apprises us that the most serious consequence of that neglect was idolatry, adopting the mores of the people they had failed to evict from the land. Each time their negligence reached a high-water mark, they were delivered into the hands of an enemy, their oppression lasting until they rallied around a religious savior and the waters that threatened to engulf them receded, albeit temporarily.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Part three, comprising the final five chapters, serves as the book\u2019s conclusion, describing perhaps the most egregious events pertaining to the themes of idolatry and depravity, regardless of their place in the chronological sequence. It is itself divisible into chapters 17-18 and 19-21. The first tells of Micah\u2019s idol and delivers a somewhat sarcastic rebuke for idolatry that was so ongoing that it blithely utilized monies dedicated to God and employed a Levite as priest. The second is more austere and severe, depicting the anti-social behavior of Gibeah on a par with that of the infamous Sodom and Gomorrah, leaving a lasting legacy of civil strife and near decimation due, again, to the influence of their assimilation of local mores and habits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The concluding verse of the book, a repetition of \u201cin those days there was no king in Israel,\u201d links the two halves of the final portion to one another and also serves as a segue into the Book of Samuel, as we shall shortly see.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":54952,"id":54952,"title":"jud1-tribes","filename":"jud1-tribes.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud1-tribes.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/looking-back-in-order-to-plan-forward\/jud1-tribes\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"jud1-tribes","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":54951,"date":"2019-05-05 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