If all the numbers in the Book of Judges relating to years of rest and oppression are added up, we arrive at a figure of 410 years.
However, the judges did not exercise their role of deliverers of the nation sequentially: some judged simultaneously in different geographical areas in the land of Israel (e.g. Samson and Samuel evidently lived during the same period of Philistine ascendancy in the land of Israel).
This could compute to a figure of 355 years for the entire judges period.
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