Judges - Perspective

I've been thinking a lot about perspective in these readings. From who's perspective is this being written and what's the perspective from which I'm reading it. Many of the stories of Judges are certainly not written from a woman's perspective and probably not from the point of view of the Canaanites. Sometimes, what's good news from one person's point of view, is bad news from another. Is the fact that I'm a citizen of a very powerful country affect the way I read the stories of Israel conquering the land? Would I look at these conquest stories any different if I was Native American or living in a country which was being oppressed by another? And then, of course, a big question is, "What is God's perspective?" Maybe that's what I'm trying to discover between the lines of scripture. How is it that God looks upon us and what does God see? Maybe every story of scripture gives us another little hint as to the way that God sees things all the time.