Politics · 19 · Solomon and Sheba

Gideon and Abimelech flirt with kingship

After Deborah, power-hungry men like Gideon and his son Abimelech toy with monarchy. Their stories warn of kingship's threat to peoplehood.

Polemical parables.

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Southern scribes also added their own heroes and an appendix polemicizing against Benjamin.

Bible reference: Judges 8–9

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 305

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