Bronze Age World

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Publication: Oxford University Press
Peer reviewed: Yes

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entity Judges traditions
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · contextualizes · composition of historical books
Locates Judges within layered literary history.
date assertion Judges traditions — date assertion
informs · contextualizes · composition of historical books
Locates Judges within layered literary history.
entity Division of Israel and Judah traditions
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · contextualizes · literary structure and ideology
Locates the narrative within later historiography.
date assertion Division of Israel and Judah traditions — date assertion
informs · contextualizes · literary structure and ideology
Locates the narrative within later historiography.
event Formation and redaction of Judges traditions
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · contextualizes · historical-books composition
Provides corpus-level models.
property assignment Judges traditions — has property — Literary tradition, not contemporary event report
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes · historical-books composition
Supports assignment.
date assertion Formation and redaction of Judges traditions — date assertion
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · contextualizes · historical-books composition
Provides corpus-level models.
claim Judges may preserve geographically local memories, but its cycle structure and chronology are products of later literary organization.
Disputed interpretationConfidence in this assessment: moderateConfidence in the stated assessment
informs · contextualizes · historical-books composition
Supports later organization.
claim The biblical division of one United Monarchy should not be assumed as the only model for the emergence of Israel and Judah.
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · contextualizes · later historiographic construction
Provides literary context.
myth interpretation Judges cycle as theological structuring of local traditions
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes · historical-books composition
Supports later structuring.
myth interpretation Samson cycle as Philistine-Israelite borderland heroic tradition
Evidence confidence: low
informs · contextualizes · Judges literary context
Supports later editing.
myth interpretation Mesha Stele and Kings as competing royal-historical memories
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes · Kings composition
Provides biblical historiographic context.
claim The Deuteronomistic History is best represented as a debated, multi-stage scholarly corpus model rather than one securely dated authorial work.
Evidence confidence: high
informs · critiques interpretation · so-called DH discussion
Shows alternatives.
date assertion Major composition and redaction phases of the Deuteronomistic History — date assertion
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · critiques interpretation · so-called Deuteronomistic History
Provides alternatives.
event Major composition and redaction phases of the Deuteronomistic History
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · critiques interpretation · so-called Deuteronomistic History
Provides alternatives.
claim A biblical narrative is direct evidence for a literary tradition and its reception, not automatically a contemporary report of its narrated event.
Evidence confidence: near certain
informs · defines · historical-books composition
Supports later redaction.
entity Deuteronomistic History model
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · defines · handbook chapter
Provides alternative compositional histories.
date assertion Deuteronomistic History model — date assertion
informs · defines · handbook chapter
Provides alternative compositional histories.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: low
supports · contextualizes · Judges literary context
Supports later editing.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
supports · contextualizes · Kings composition
Provides biblical historiographic context.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
supports · contextualizes · historical-books composition
Supports later structuring.