Hollow men, strange women :
Baker, Robin (Professor of Old Testament),
Hollow men, strange women : riddles, codes, and otherness in the Book of Judges / by Robin Baker. - xx, 354 pages ; color maps ; 24 cm. - Biblical interpretation series ; volume 143 . - Biblical interpretation series ; v. 143. .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Maps with gazetteer -- Introduction: 'A spoil of divers colours on both sides' -- 'O mirror of our fickle state': riddles, words and other instruments of illusion -- Not quite at home: geography and otherness -- 'Let me feel the pillars on which the house stands': the role and symbolism of the book's rhetorical architecture -- The tangled roots of Deborah's tree: Mesopotamia, Egypt and the soul of Judges -- 'This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms': death and cosmic warfare -- Past as parable, history as honey: Judges as historiography -- Epilogue: Judges and the Deuteronomist.
9004322663 9789004322660
2016019209
Bible.--Judges--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
222.3206
Hollow men, strange women : riddles, codes, and otherness in the Book of Judges / by Robin Baker. - xx, 354 pages ; color maps ; 24 cm. - Biblical interpretation series ; volume 143 . - Biblical interpretation series ; v. 143. .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Maps with gazetteer -- Introduction: 'A spoil of divers colours on both sides' -- 'O mirror of our fickle state': riddles, words and other instruments of illusion -- Not quite at home: geography and otherness -- 'Let me feel the pillars on which the house stands': the role and symbolism of the book's rhetorical architecture -- The tangled roots of Deborah's tree: Mesopotamia, Egypt and the soul of Judges -- 'This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms': death and cosmic warfare -- Past as parable, history as honey: Judges as historiography -- Epilogue: Judges and the Deuteronomist.
9004322663 9789004322660
2016019209
Bible.--Judges--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
222.3206