Judges
Introduction
Welcome to the most violent book in the Bible.
Judges is a book about the spiraling madness of violence and anarchy. Many of the stories we find were likely composed (orally) before the time of King Saul and King David. We can imagine them to be legendary-historical tales of what Israel was like before she had a monarchy. Imagine old men and women, around a table, saying, “I heard that before we had a king our people used to…”