The chronology of the book of Judges has been studied and debated by biblical scholars for many centuries. In my view, the most viable reconstruction so far is that proposed by Andrew Steinmann in his article The Mysterious Numbers of the Judges, named in honor of the groundbreaking book The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings, by Edwin Thiele (1951), a book that finally resolved the issue of apparently conflicting data regarding the reigns of the kings of Israel and Judah. Marking the end. The chronology of the book of Judges must......