Judges can be divided into three major sections: a double prologue ( chapters 1: 1-3: 6 ), a main body ( 3: 7-16: 31 ), and a double epilogue ( 17-21 ).

In the 20th century the first part of the prologue ( chapters 1: 1-2: 5 ) and the two parts of the epilogue ( 17-21 ) were commonly seen as miscellaneous collections of fragments tacked on to the main text, and the second part of the prologue ( 2: 6-3: 6 ) as an introduction composed expressly for the book ; this view has been challenged in the latter decades of the century, and there is an increasing willingness to see Judges as the work of a single individual, working by carefully selecting, reworking and positioning his source material to introduce and conclude his themes.

It is set in the land of Edom, which has been retained as the background, and in the prologue and epilogue, the name of God is YHWH, a name that even the Edomites used.

Himanen explained these ideas in a book, The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age, with a prologue contributed by Linus Torvalds and an epilogue by Manuel Castells.

The film contains adaptations of " The Veldt ", " The Long Rain ", " The Last Night of the World " and expands the prologue and epilogue with intermittent scenes and flashbacks of how the illustrations came to be.

The origin of the eleven numbered chapters of the novel is explained in a prologue and epilogue, whose narrator is a neurologist.

The novel is written in the form of a true story, and even begins and ends with a pseudo-historical prologue and epilogue, adding to the overall feeling of mystery.

A new prologue featuring a carnival barker was added, as was the new epilogue featuring the reconciliation of the tiny lovers.

The studio, wary of such a pessimistic conclusion, insisted on adding a prologue and epilogue to the movie that suggested a more optimistic outcome to the story which is thus told mainly in flashback.

The film employs a prologue and epilogue to frame the narrative story.

Some critics have suggested the prologue and epilogue were intended to demonstrate the care with which Beban, a noted stage actor, had selected a story worthy of his talents.

The film featured a prologue " apprising the audience that the hoodlums and terrorists of the underworld must be exposed and the glamour ripped from them " and an epilogue " pointing the moral that civilization is on her knees and inquiring loudly as to what is to be done.

1750 BC, was the longest of the Mesopotamian legal collections, extending to nearly three hundred individual laws and accompanied by a lengthy prologue and epilogue.

Mefistofele is an opera in a prologue, four acts and an epilogue, the only completed opera by the Italian composer-librettist Arrigo Boito.

" " Hold That Ghost " was completed before production of " In The Navy " began, but when shown to preview audiences, film-goers that completed feedback cards were disappointed not to see The Andrews Sisters, so the trio was hired & musical numbers were added as a prologue and epilogue.

By contrast, HLL programs typically always invoke a ' standard ' procedure call ( the calling convention ), which involves saving the program state by default and usually allocating additional memory on the stack to save all registers and other relevant state data ( the prologue and epilogue code ).

* Stephen King wrote both a prologue and epilogue to The Shining titled Before The Play and After The Play, respectively.

It has a prologue written by Alexander Pope and an epilogue by Dr. Garth.

Since the monastic Christmas revels of mediæval times, Latin plays have been presented by the Scholars, with a prologue and witty epilogue on contemporary events.

* prologue by Richard Robinson, epilogue by Norman A. Stahl, and history of reading since by P. David Pearson.

Eddie and Ida Cantor were seen in a brief prologue and epilogue set in a projection room, where they are watching Brasselle in action ; at the end of the film Eddie tells Ida, " I never looked better in my life "... and gives the audience a knowing, incredulous look.

The film can be viewed as both prologue and epilogue to the television series Twin Peaks ( 1990 – 91 ), created by Lynch and Mark Frost.

* A literary genre that included five elements: prologue, birth and upbringing, acts of the person's life, comparisons used to praise the subject, and an epilogue.

In 1837, Bentley's Miscellany was launched, with Charles Dickens as editor, and Maginn wrote the prologue and contributed over the next several years a series of " Shakespeare Papers " that examined characters in counter-intuitive fashion ( e. g., the key to Falstaff is his melancholy ).

In 1971, SLON made Le Train en marche, a new prologue to Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin's 1935 film Schastye, which had recently been re-released in France.

The film's graveyard prologue is a recreation of the opening scene from Ed Wood's then-unreleased 1958 film Night of the Ghouls.

Its accompanying Lawrence of Arabia-inspired music video was played in theaters across the world as a prologue to the film Clueless.

The film begins with a prologue, the only commentary in the film.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who appeared in the prologue to the film based on his novel of the same name, reportedly showed a reel of O ' Brien's animation from the film to his friends, claiming it was real footage of living dinosaurs, to try to convince them that his story was based on fact.

Sturges wanted the film to begin with the prologue: " This is the story of a man who wanted to wash an elephant.

The film opened with a lengthy prologue.

McCay accepted, and extended the film to include a live-action prologue and intertitles to replace his stage patter.

The film was also re-released in 1954, with a written prologue added before the opening credits, advising that gangsters such as Tom Powers and Caesar " Rico " Bandello, the title character in Little Caesar ( played by Edward G. Robinson ), are a menace that the public must confront.

The Associated Press noted: " DeForest's gnomish face was the first to greet viewers when Letterman's NBC show debuted on February 1, 1982, offering a parody of the prologue to the Boris Karloff film Frankenstein.

Bledsoe was actually seen singing " Ol ' Man River " in the sound prologue shown preceding the film.

More appeared in a 35 minute prologue to The Collector ( 1965 ) at the special request of director William Wyler however it ended up being removed entirely from the final film.

The film was released with a special prologue and epilogue in South African cinemas after Reeves ' death, praising him as a true friend of the country.

In 1962, they used it to make the prologue to Orson Welles ' film adaptation of Franz Kafka's novel The Trial.

In order to give a moral justification for the violence of the film for American broadcast television audiences, a four and a half minute prologue was added to the film for its ABC television debut.

In the film's brief prologue, an unseen narrator asks a series of rhetorical questions that prime the audience to view the film through a metaphysical lens touching on traditional philosophical questions involving determinism vs. philosophic libertarianism, as well as epistemology.

Evidence for this is found in the prologue to the Gospel of Luke, wherein the author alludes to his sources by writing, " Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.

The author opens with a prologue, usually taken to be addressed to an individual by the name of Theophilus ( though this name, which translates literally as " God-lover ", may be a nickname rather than a personal appellation ) and references " my earlier book "— almost certainly the Gospel of Luke.

* an opening prologue that describes a dream had by Mordecai

The speeches of Elihu ( who is not mentioned in the prologue ) are claimed to contradict the fundamental opinions expressed by the " friendly accusers " in the central body of the poem, according to which it is impossible that the righteous should suffer, all pain being a punishment for some sin.

In his prologue to Judith, without using the word canon, he mentioned that Judith was held to be scriptural by the First Council of Nicaea.

There are several covenants in the bible, and in each case they exhibit at least some of the elements found in real-life treaties of the ancient Middle East: a preamble, historical prologue, stipulations, deposition and reading, list of witnesses, blessings and curses, and ratification by animal sacrifice.

Władysław Gomułka and János Kádár were less concerned with the reforms themselves than with the growing criticisms leveled by the Czechoslovak media, and worried the situation might be " similar to the prologue of the Hungarian counterrevolution ".

Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli were to have created a Sweeney Todd adaptation for Taboo, published by Steve Bissette and Tundra, but only completed a prologue.

To highlight his evil and villainous rise to power, Ui is compared to Shakespeare's Richard III and Macbeth in both the introductory prologue and in scene 14 when he experiences similar visitations from the ghosts of his victims as Richard and Macbeth do ; while Hitler's own learned prowess at public speaking is referenced by Ui receiving lessons from an actor which include him reciting Mark Antony's famous speech from Julius Caesar.

a prologue to one of his plays, Terence meets the charge of receiving assistance in the composition of his plays by claiming as a great honour the favour which he enjoyed with those who were the favorites of the Roman people.

2009 also saw the beginning of the new New Mutants volume written by Zeb Wells, with the limited series X-Infernus serving as prologue.

In the Spanish language version, the stories were preceded by a prologue by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges.

It occurs in countless variations from recipe collections from all over Europe and is mentioned in the prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and in an early 15th century cookbook written by the chefs of Richard II.

These early performances were given in Latin, and were preceded by a vernacular prologue spoken by a herald who gave a synopsis of the events.

The text reads: " Prince Igor, opera in 4 acts with a prologue, words and music by A. P.

The Arabic original contains a prologue not found in most other translations, and was written by an Arab monk, Michael.

In the England of the Aesthetic Movement, Aubrey Beardsley's drawings attested profound kinship with the figure ; Olive Custance ( who would marry Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas ) published the poem " Pierrot " in 1897 ; and Ernest Dowson wrote the verse-play Pierrot of the Minute ( 1897, illustrated by Beardsley ), to which the composer Sir Granville Bantock would later contribute an orchestral prologue ( 1908 ).

In 1927, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari wrote a verismo opera called Sly, or The Legend of the Sleeper Awoken, based on the prologue of the play, with a libretto by Giovacchino Forzano.