YHWH and Israel in the Book of Judges

In the Book of Judges the narrator presents an image of the good parent YHWH whose enduring love and loyalty is offset by his wayward child Israel who defaults on the relationship repeatedly. Biblical scholars have largely concurred, demonstrating the many faults of Israel while siding with YHWH''s privileged viewpoint. When object-relations theory (which examines how human beings relate to each o...