Book Reviews: PAUL BEYOND THE JUDAISM/HELLENISM DIVIDE. Edited by Troels Engberg-Pedersen. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2001. Pp. x + 355. Paper, $39.95

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now fight Israelites, not foreign enemies. McCann has done a good job of handling the popular appeal of these earthy stories. This may be seen in the names given to several of the characters, e.g., Eglon the fat cat, Ehud the lone ranger, Gideon the hacker, and Mr. Barley Corn. The author also capably depicts the bathroom humor in the Ehud story and the sexual innuendoes in Jael’s dispatching of Sisera and Samson’s riddle to the wedding guests. The author deftly underlines the roles of women in Judges. He points out at least twenty-two individuals or groups of women and notes that the major roles played by