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Hollow men, strange women : riddles, codes, and otherness in the Book of Judges / by Robin Baker.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Biblical interpretation series ; v. 143.Description: xx, 354 pages ; color maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9004322663
  • 9789004322660
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 222.3206 23
Contents:
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.
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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.