David M. Gunn holds the A. A. Bradford Chair of Religion at Texas Christian University. His other books include "Gender, Power, and Promise: The Subject of the Bible's First Story" (1993) and "Narrative in the Hebrew Bible" (1993), as co-author, and "Reading Bibles, Writing Bodies: Identity and the Book" (1996) and ""Imagining" Biblical Worlds: Spatial, Social and Historical Constructs" (2002), as co-editor. He is also co-author of the article on Judges in the" Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation" (1999).