Hollow men, strange women : : riddles, codes and otherness in the Book of Judges / / by Robin Baker.
In Hollow Men, Strange Women , Robin Baker provides a masterly reappraisal of Israel's experience during its Settlement of Canaan as narrated in the Book of Judges. Written under Assyrian suzerainty in the reign of Manasseh, Judges is both a theological commentary on the Settlement and an esote...
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| Superior document: | Biblical Interpretation Series, Volume 143 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Biblical interpretation series ;
Volume 143. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (376 pages) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- 1 Introduction: ‘A Spoil of Divers Colours on Both Sides’
- 2 ‘O Mirror of Our Fickle State’: Riddles, Words and Other Instruments of Illusion
- 3 Not Quite at Home: Geography and Otherness
- 4 ‘Let Me Feel the Pillars on Which the House Stands’: The Role and Symbolism of the Book’s Rhetorical Architecture
- 5 The Tangled Roots of Deborah’s Tree: Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Soul of Judges
- 6 ‘This Broken Jaw of Our Lost Kingdoms’: Death and Cosmic Warfare
- 7 Past as Parable, History as Honey: Judges as Historiography
- 8 Epilogue: Judges and the Deuteronomist
- Bibliography
- Index of Biblical References
- General Index.