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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2019
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Hebrew studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 60, Pages: 129-139 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Grace
/ Regret
/ Soteriology
/ Judges
/ Liberation
/ Israel
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| 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. |
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| ISSN: | 2158-1681 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Hebrew studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/hbr.2019.0006 |