Marriage by Capture in the Book of Judges: An Anthropological Approach

by Katherine Southwood and Katherine E. Southwood

In this book, Katherine E. Southwood offers a new approach to interpreting Judges 21. Breaking away from traditional interpretations of kingship, feminism, or comparisons with Greek or Roman mythology, she explores the concepts of marriage, ethnicity, rape, and power as means of ethnic preservation and exclusion. She also exposes the many reasons why marriage by capture occurred during the post-exilic period. Judges 21 served as a warning against...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107145244
• ISBN13: 9781107145245
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.9"