Judges
Edited by
Tammi J. Schneider [+–]
Claremont Graduate University
Tammi J. Schneider received her PhD in Ancient History (including the fields of archaeology, history, and languages of the Bible and Mesopotamia) from the University of Pennsylvania and holds the Danforth Chair in Religion at Claremont Graduate University. She has 28 years of archaeological experience in Israel, serving as staff in various capacities or directing excavations at the sites of Tel Miqne/Ekron, Tel Safi, Tel Harassim, Tel el-Far‘a (South), and Akko. She has published Bible and Archaeology: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going? (Occasional Papers #49, The Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, The Claremont Graduate School, 2006) and “Jezebel: A Phoenician Princess Gone Bad?” in Partners with God: Theological and Critical Readings of the Bible in Honor of Marvin. A. Sweeney, Edited by Shelley Birdsong (Claremont: Claremont Press, 2017), pp. 123–132.
Traci L. Birge [+–]
Azusa Pacific University
Traci L. Birge is Assistant Professor in the Department of Biblical and Religious Studies at
Azusa Pacific University.
Azusa Pacific University.
Studies in the book of Judges have flourished as biblical scholarship has expanded to include several new methodological approaches. Yet, while the diversity of method has produced new depth and insight, the gaze of scholarship has remained steadfast—focusing attention on the same characters and centering the same basic storylines. This volume seeks to shift focus from the storylines held by the traditionally centered characters to understand the stories of the characters on the periphery of the narrative. Thus, it has as a volume-wide theme the study of minor characters and the issues that arise in connection with their presence in a given story. What stories within stories have we overlooked and how might they expand our understanding of the book of Judges as a whole if we see the story through multiple perspectives within the text? Using various methodological approaches, each chapter in this volume focuses on a traditionally under-read character in the Judges narrative to recover new aspects of these well-known stories and, perhaps, change the way we read the dominant narrative in the process.
