1.27 Judges II: Victory into Defeat

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 27 March 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The Book of the Rescuers was the heroic story of the northern Israelites. The later editors of Judges were all southern Judeans. They inverted the northern stories, turning triumph into disaster.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Gary Stevens, and welcome to the History in the Bible podcast.
0:24.8	All the history, in all the books, in all the Bibles.
0:44.1	All the Bibles. Episode 1.27.
0:46.4	Victory into defeat.
0:51.9	Welcome to the first anniversary episode of the History in the Bible podcast.
0:53.9	Happy birthday to us. Thanks for all your support over the Bible podcast. Happy birthday to us.
0:57.5	Thanks for all your support over the past year.
1:02.7	In the last episode, I presented the Book of the Rescuers,
1:06.1	the central and oldest portion of the book of judges.
1:11.9	The Book of the Rescuers recounts the mighty deeds of the heroes of the northern tribes,
1:16.1	Ahud, Deborah, Barak and Gideon.
1:24.5	The southern editor of Judges, the Deuteronomist, built a framework around this that changed the whole intent of the book.
1:30.0	He transformed it from a glorification of the Israelite warriors of the north into a celebration of the Judeans of the South. He added a short prologue before the
1:37.5	book of rescuers and a long epilogue after. Well, it's a little more complicated than that, but follow me. The prologue to judges
1:48.0	consists of chapter 1 through to the first judge Othniel, whose story is told in chapter 3.
1:56.2	The Deuteronomist had a problem on his hands. The book of Joshua said that all Canaan was conquered.
2:03.7	But the materials he had to hand for judges contradicted that.
2:08.2	How could that be explained?
2:10.7	He comes up with three ideas.
2:13.3	Quote, Judges 2.20.
2:17.6	Then Yave became incensed against Israel, and he said,
2:21.7	Since that nation has transgressed the covenant that I enjoined upon their fathers,
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