Alastair Roberts - Judges 19: The Levite & His Concubine (Echoes of Sodom, Passover, Saul & Hosea)

Alastair Roberts (PhD, Durham University) works for the Theopolis and Davenant Institutes. He is an author of Echoes of Exodus: Tracing Themes of Redemption Through Scripture (Crossway, 2018) and the forthcoming Heirs Together: A Theology of the Sexes. He participates in the Mere Fidelity and Theopolis podcasts, blogs at Alastair’s Adversaria, posts regular videos on theology on his YouTube account, and tweets at @zugzwanged.
In this episode we discuss Judges 19. He discusses the many ways that this passage connections and parallels to so many other stories in the Bible. These include, Sodom & Gomorrah, Rachel & Benjamin, Passover, Judges 17-18, Saul, Hosea. Alastair helps to illuminate how the passage as frames the entire book of Judges and how we are to interpret it in light of Israel’s larger narrative.