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Bedan, Abdon or Barak in 1 Samuel Xii 11?

Bedan, Abdon or Barak in 1 Samuel Xii 11? SHORT NOTES BEDAN, ABDON OR BARAK IN 1 SAMUEL XII 11? In a recent note in this journal, Howard Jacobson' has raised again the problem of the occurrence of an otherwise unknown judge or deliverer named Bedan in the MT of 1 Sam. xii 11, where Samuel declares, "And the Lord sent Jerubbaal and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side; and you dwelt in safety". Jacobson's solu- tion, taking up a suggestion earlier made by H. Ewald and others,' is that the reference is to the minor judge Abdon (Judg. xii 13-15), though unlike Ewald, who emended bedan to cabddn, Jacobson thinks it possible that Bedan is simply a variant of the name Abdon. The major objections to this that come to mind, of course, are that Abdon was such an insignificant judge in comparison with the others named in this verse (Jerubbaal [ = Gideon], Jephthah, Samue13) and that the book of Judges says not a word about his having delivered Israel from enemies, such as 1 Sam. xii 11 requires. Jacobson's attempts to deal with these problems are unsatisfactory. First of all, he declares http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Vetus Testamentum Brill

Bedan, Abdon or Barak in 1 Samuel Xii 11?

Day, John
Vetus Testamentum , Volume 43 (2): 261 – Jan 1, 1993
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© 1993 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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SHORT NOTES BEDAN, ABDON OR BARAK IN 1 SAMUEL XII 11? In a recent note in this journal, Howard Jacobson' has raised again the problem of the occurrence of an otherwise unknown judge or deliverer named Bedan in the MT of 1 Sam. xii 11, where Samuel declares, "And the Lord sent Jerubbaal and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side; and you dwelt in safety". Jacobson's solu- tion, taking up a suggestion earlier made by H. Ewald and others,' is that the reference is to the minor judge Abdon (Judg. xii 13-15), though unlike Ewald, who emended bedan to cabddn, Jacobson thinks it possible that Bedan is simply a variant of the name Abdon. The major objections to this that come to mind, of course, are that Abdon was such an insignificant judge in comparison with the others named in this verse (Jerubbaal [ = Gideon], Jephthah, Samue13) and that the book of Judges says not a word about his having delivered Israel from enemies, such as 1 Sam. xii 11 requires. Jacobson's attempts to deal with these problems are unsatisfactory. First of all, he declares

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