Definition of Book of Judges

1. Noun. A book of the Old Testament that tells the history of Israel under the leaders known as judges.

Exact synonyms: Judges
Generic synonyms: Book
Group relationships: Old Testament, Nebiim, Prophets

Lexicographical Neighbors of Book Of Judges

Book of Ecclesiastes
Book of Esther
Book of Exodus
Book of Ezekiel
Book of Ezra
Book of Genesis
Book of Habakkuk
Book of Haggai
Book of Hosea
Book of Isaiah
Book of Jeremiah
Book of Job
Book of Joel
Book of Jonah
Book of Joshua
Book of Judges (current term)
Book of Judith
Book of Lamentations
Book of Leviticus
Book of Malachi
Book of Micah
Book of Mormon
Book of Nahum
Book of Nehemiah
Book of Numbers
Book of Obadiah
Book of Proverbs
Book of Psalms
Book of Revelation
Book of Ruth

Literary usage of Book of Judges

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"The thread of the book of Judges breaks off with the death of Samson, and, although Eli ... The period given by the book of Judges from the subjugation by ..."

2. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1825)
"ON THE Book of Judges. I. Title. — II. Date and author.—HI. ... IJ HE book of Judges derives its name from its containing the history of the Israelites, ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The Septuagint, the Vulgate, and the English Versions give it immediately after the Book of Judges. The Hebrew Bible, on the contrary, reckons it among the ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Ll are from the hand of the editor, who desired to make the whole book of Judges, including chap. L, read continuously with that which now precedes it in ..."

5. History: Fiction of Science? by Anatoly Fomenko (2005)
"THE EVENTS FROM THE Book of Judges DATING TO THE Xll-XVI CENTURY AD HAD INITIALLY BEEN SHIFTED TO THE VIl-IX CENTURY AD BY THE CHRONOLOGISTS In the ..."

6. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, Sir W Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1911)
"THE Book of Judges.1 MY object in these lectures is, firstly, to explain the general structure, and the character, of the Book of Judges, and to distinguish ..."

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