*weakly* Someone once suggested J was a dynastic novel and so therefore Judges is about the end of it, the ... corrupt part? The part you're meant to compare with Jacob and so forth and see, you know, the seeds of what the kings would become. You know, with the "lay with his father's wife" and the betrayed son becoming the favorite and I really, really forget the parallels, but they made some sense at the time.

It's interesting...