Ambrose of Milan
Patristic
A.D. 339–397
“When this [what had happened to the concubine] became known, (to be brief) almost all the people of Israel broke out into war.”
The interpretation timeline
Judg 20:1
How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.
From the early Church Fathers to now.
Judg 20:1 · Douay-Rheims
“Then all the children of Israel went out and gathered together as one man from Dan to Bersabee, with the land of Galaad, to the Lord in Maspha:”
Patristic
before A.D. 750
397
A.D.
Modern · 1953 →
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