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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

Hardcover

Bible Studies

ISBN10: 9004322663
ISBN13: 9789004322660
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jul 21 2016
Pages: 354
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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 esoteric work of prophecy. Its apparent historicity subtly encrypts a grim forewarning of Judah's future, and, in its extensive treatment of otherness, Judges explores the meaning of God's covenant with Israel.

Robin Baker's scholarly and perceptive reading draws on a deep understanding of ancient Hebrew and Mesopotamian symbolic codes to interpret the riddles in this many-layered text. The Book of Judges reveals complex literary configurations from which past, present, and future are simultaneously presented.

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