Arthur Cundall suggested that one of the purposes of Judges may have been to provide apologetic justification for Israel's monarchy.10William Dumbrell believed its purpose was primarily to show the sovereign grace of God in preserving Israel in spite of Israel.11Leon Wood wrote that its primary purpose was to show why Israel did not experience God's promised blessings.12Herbert Wolf believed the primary purpose was to show that Israel's spiritual condition determined its political and material situation.13Daniel Block argued that it was to reveal the Canaanization of Israel in the premonarchic period of Israel's history.14All these explanations seem to me to be in harmony with what the book records.
