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in the Masoretic Text (as well as by other Canaanitic-speaking societies), the position as described in Judges 12:7-15 is an unelected non-hereditary leadership rather than a position of legal pronouncements. Cyrus H. Gordon argued the shophetim may have come from among the hereditary leaders of the fighting, landed, and ruling aristocracy, like the ''basileis''

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