Which of the following is listed as a judge?

• A. Dan
• B. Samuel
• C. Aaron
• D. Moses

Answer: (B)

Samuel is listed as a judge because, in the biblical narrative, the judges were leaders raised up by God to govern Israel during times of distress before the monarchy. Samuel is explicitly described as judging Israel, “all the days of his life” (1 Samuel 7:15), and he functions as both judge and prophet, guiding spiritual and civil affairs and even anointing Israel’s kings. Moses and Aaron belong to an earlier era—Moses as the lawgiver and leader from Egypt and the wilderness, Aaron as priest—so they aren’t described as judges in the period of the judges. The name Dan refers to a tribe (and Samson, a judge from that tribe, is not what the option is asking about). So Samuel is the one explicitly listed as a judge.