Historical Books William J. Urbrock, Christopher T. Begg, Phillip E. McMillion, Katherine M. Hayes, and CSJ Lorenzo A. Tosco 646. [Joshua; Judges] Marion Ann Taylor and Christiana de Groot (eds.), Women of War, Women of Woe: Joshua and Judges through the Eyes of Nineteenth-Century Female Biblical Interpreters (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2016). Pp. x + 278. Paper $35. ISBN 978-0-8028-7302-6. The volume's Introduction discusses some nineteenth-century assumptions and debates about gender, and the genres that nineteenth-century women used to interpret Scripture, the Books of Joshua and Judges in particular. The eight major sections of the book deal in turn with Rahab; Achsah, Caleb's daughter; Deborah; Jael; Jephthah's Daughter; Manoah's Wife; Delilah; and the Levite's Concubine. The thirty-five British and American interpreters whose works are excerpted here are: Sarah Ewing Hall, Susanna Haswell Rowson, Sarah Hale, Cecil Frances (Fanny) Alexander, Charlotte Maria Tucker, Etty Woosnam, Leigh Norval, Josephine Elizabeth Butler, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lydia (pen-name of a contributor to The Christian Lady's Magazine), Grace Aguilar, Marianne Farningham, Clara Balfour, Barbara Kellison, Julia McNair Wright, Harriet Beecher Stowe, [End Page 178] Elizabeth Baxter, Clara B. Neyman, Eliza R. Stansbury Steele, Mary Cornwallis, Eliza Smith, Emily Owen, the sisters Constance de Rothschild and Annie de Rothschild, Elizabeth Jane Whately, Anne Mercier, M. G. (an English writer), Caroline Howard Gilman, Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, Adelia C. Graves, Rose Terry Cooke, Louisa Southworth, Mary Elizabeth Beck, Edith M. Dewhurst, and Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Their interpretations range in genre from biblical commentary and sermons to poetry, catechesis, drama, historical fiction, devotional essays, published notes, and female biography. A brief biographical sketch introduces each of the above interpreters. A bibliography and indexes of names, subjects, and Scripture conclude the volume.—W.J.U. 647. [Judges] Ernst Axel Knauf, Richter (Zürcher Bibelkommentare AT 7; Zurich: TVZ, 2016). Pp. 175. Paper €43. ISBN 978-3-290-14756-3. K.'s commentary on the Book of Judges opens with a five-part introduction organized under the following heads: (1) The Book; (2) Origin (K. views the extant book as originating via a series of redactional amplifications, extending down to into the Hasmonean period, of a 8th/7th cent. collection of "deliverer stories"); (3) The Book of Judges and the Period of the Judges (according to K., historically there was no "Judges period"); (4) Text, Language, and Principles of Exegesis; and (5) Reception History (here, K. points out that in the NT Hebrews is the only writing that seems to know the Book of Judges). For his commentary, K. divides Judges up into 17 segments. For each of these, he provides his own translation, exegetical notes and (in certain cases) also remarks on the passage's historical context and reception-history. Interspersed throughout one finds a variety of charts, maps, and iconographic illustrations. The volume concludes with a brief bibliography and illustration credits.—C.T.B. 648. [Judges 1–12] Jack M. Sasson, Judges 1–12: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (AYB 6D; New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2014). Pp. xx + 593. $100. ISBN 978-0-300-19033-5. Judges has been the focus of much scholarly attention since the original Anchor Bible volume on the book by Robert G. Boling in 1975. This new commentary by S. contains a brief introduction that touches on previous studies of sources, redaction, cultural and social setting, archaeology, epic style, and later reception of Judges. A 60-page bibliography provides ample material for further study. In S.'s translation of the book, he strives for "easy comprehension without disregarding the original Hebrew." In the commentary notes, S. uses an informal style. He incorporates his wide knowledge of ANE texts and cultures to clarify and illustrate principles and structures found in Judges. S. works through the Hebrew text of Judges phrase by phrase, and then offers comments dealing with, and often questioning, recent interpretations.—P.E.M. 649. [Judges 19–21] Cynthia Edenburg, Dismembering the Whole: Composition and Purpose of Judges 19–21 (SBL Ancient Israel and Its Literature 24; Atlanta: SBL, 2016). Pp. xiv + 424...