This is Charles Fox Burney’s 1918 commentary on the book of Judges, complete with colour maps and greyscale plates. This title is in the public domain.

Charles Fox Burney [1868-1925], editor, The Book of Judges with Introduction and Notes. London: Rivingtons. 1918. Hbk. pp.528. [Click to visit the download page]

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Addenda
• Principle Abbreviations Employed
• Introduction
  1. Title, Scope, and Place in the Canon
  2. Structure
  3. The Old Narratives
  4. The Editors
  5. Chronology
  6. External Information Bearing on the Period of Judges
  7. The Permanent Religious Value of Judges
  8. The Hebrew Text and Ancient Versions
• Translation and Commentary
• Additional Notes
  • External Evidence for the Use of the Terms ‘Cana’an’ and ‘The Land of the Amorite’
  • Sedek as a Divine Name
  • The Meaning of the Name Kiriath-Arba’
  • The Conquest of the Negeb
  • The Original Form of J’s Account of the Settlement of the Tribes of Israel in Cana’an
  • A Detailed Examination of the Rhythm of the Song of Deborah
  • The Climactic Parallelism of the Song of Deborah
  • The Language of the Song of Deborah
  • Yahweh or Yahu Originally an Amorite Deity
  • Early Identification of Yahweh with the Moon-God
  • The Use of Writing Among the Israelites at the Time of the Judges
  • Human Sacrifice Among the Israelites
  • The Women’s Festival of Judges 11:40
  • The Mythical Elements in the Story of Samson
  • The Origin of the Levites
• Description of the Plates
• Note on the Maps of Palestine
• Indices:-
  1. General Index
  2. Index of Grammatical and Philological Observations
  3. Index of Foreign Terms: Hebrew (Including Cana’anite); Babylonian and Assyrian (Including Sumerian); Aramaic (Including Syriac); Arabic; Greek, Latin
  4. Index of Passages from Other Books Discussed
• Maps:-
  • Western Asia in the Second Millennium B.C.
  • The District Round Gibe’ah
  • Palestine (five maps)
• Plates