Gillmayr-Bucher S. Framework and Discourse in the Book of Judges

JBL 128, no. 4 (2009): 687–702.This article releases the traditional understandings of the stories within the book of Judges. Reading the stories with a Bakhtinian model of polyphonic and carnivalesque texts opens a new view on these narratives with each story challenging expectations and the final effect of the stories not resolving into a unified message.