Hollow men, strange women : riddles, codes, and otherness in the Book of Judges / Robin Baker
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TextLanguage: English Series: Biblical interpretation series ; 143Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : E. J. Brill, 2016Description: xx, 354 p. : ill. (some color) ; 25 cmISBN: - 97890043226609004322663
- BS1305.52 .B35 2016
Maps with gazetteer -- '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 -- Judges and the Deuteronomis.
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