Repentance in Judges: Assessing the Reassessment

Over against the tendency of many recent studies and commentaries to maintain that Israel's deliverance in Judges is exclusively a function of divine grace, the present article argues that the terminology used by the biblical text and especially its literary structure single out the people'...

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Authors: Frolov, Serge 1959- (Author) ; Stetckevich, Mikhail (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The National Association of Professors of Hebrew 2019
In: Hebrew studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 60, Pages: 129-139
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Grace / Regret / Soteriology / Judges / Liberation / Israel
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
HD Early Judaism
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Summary:Over against the tendency of many recent studies and commentaries to maintain that Israel's deliverance in Judges is exclusively a function of divine grace, the present article argues that the terminology used by the biblical text and especially its literary structure single out the people's repentance—expressed in renunciation of foreign worship—as a major soteriological factor.
ISSN:2158-1681
Contains:Enthalten in: Hebrew studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1353/hbr.2019.0006