이 논문은 사사기 19-21장의 사건들에 대한 일관된 재해석을 제공한다. 내레이터는 어떤 의도를 가지고 끔찍한 일을 당한 여인들과 백성의 잘못된 결정으로 인한 문제를 언급하고 있다. 이 사건들에 담긴 내레이터의 의도를 밝히기 위해 사사기 19-21장의 문학적 구조와 첫 번째 사건에서 고유명사를 기피한 이유를 살피고, 전체 이야기에서 여성 인물들을 비교한다. 이를 통해 내레이터가 야웨만이 이스라엘의 유일한 왕이심을 효과적으로 보여주고 있음을 밝힌다.
This paper offers a coherent reinterpretation about the incidents in Judges 19-21. Are these incidents simply good examples of misogynistic attitudes in the Hebrew Bible? Or does the narrator intend to reveal Yahweh’s will to His chosen people? In my opinion, the narrator shows that Yahweh is the sole king for the Israelites with these contents: the incidents about the women who encounter a horrible end, and the problems due to wrong decisions made by the people. This paper is divided into three parts for supporting my opinion. Firstly, I will discuss the literary structure of this narrative. I believe that there are certain keys in the literary structure to indicate the narrator’s intention. Secondly, I will explain the narrator’s purpose for avoiding proper names in the incident. None of the characters in the incident have proper names, but are introduced according to their status, such as the Levite, the concubine, and the father-in-law. The avoidance of proper names functions as a literary device in the whole story. Thirdly, I will compare the female figures in the whole story: the concubine, the 400 young virgins of Jabesh-Gilead, and the daughters of Shiloh, because the narrator says that the Israelites progressively made things more terrible. Even though the Israelites sought rational ways to solve their previous faults, these solutions actually created more serious problems to those women. Through this, the narrator effectively shows that Yahweh is the only king of Israel.
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