The prevailing view is simply that the Judges were inspired, not hereditary leaders. But this misses the point; the Judges were normally from the ruling aristocracy, quite like the kings in Homer.

— Cyrus H. Gordon The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965)

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