Hollow men, strange women : riddles, codes, and otherness in the Book of Judges - Baker, Robin (Leiden ; Boston : E. J. Brill, 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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