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

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

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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Main Author: Baker, Robin (Professor of Old Testament)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Series: Biblical Interpretation Series 143.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2016, ISBN: 9789004303812.

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Bible. > Judges > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Call Number: BS1305.52 .B35 2016

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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.