Judges

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Judges. By Susan Niditch. Old Testament Library. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2008, xxviii + 290 pp., $44.95.

Susan Niditch is Samuel Green Professor of Religion at Amherst College. She is perhaps best known for her work in orality in ancient Israelite literature, Orai World and Written Word (1996), and her short book Ancient Israelite Religion (1998).

The commentary's format is consistent with that of other OTL volumes, a series that expressly aims to be readable while discussing the most significant linguistic, literary, historical, and theological elements in the biblical text. In this regard, Niditch's work is a model of uncluttered, focused discussion of the …