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

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 symbol...

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Main Author: Baker, Robin ca. 20./21. Jh. (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden Boston Brill [2016]
In: Biblical interpretation series (volume 143)
Year: 2016
Reviews:[Rezension von: Baker, Robin, Hollow men, strange women] (2019) (Scholz, Susanne, 1963 -)
Series/Journal:Biblical interpretation series volume 143
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Judges / Literary criticism
B Judges
B Pre- and early history / Israel (Antiquity)
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
Further subjects:B Bible. Judges Criticism, interpretation, etc
B Alttestamentliche Ethik
B Iconography
B Law Theology
B Judges
B Society
B Deuteronomist
B Judge
B Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Parallel Edition:Electronic
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Summary: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
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis : Seite 301-326
ISBN:9004322663