TY - BOOK AU - Baker, Robin TI - Hollow men, strange women : : riddles, codes, and otherness in the Book of Judges T2 - Biblical interpretation series, SN - 97890043226609004322663 AV - BS1305.52 .B35 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - Leiden ; Boston : PB - E. J. Brill, KW - Bible. Judges Criticism, interpretation, etc.Bible. Judges.Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - 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 ER -