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The Dictionary of World Biography: The Ancient World claims that she might have lived in the period between 1200 BC to 1124 BC. [15] Based on archaeological findings, different biblical scholars have argued that Deborah's war with Sisera best fits the context of either the second half of the 12th century BC [ 16 ] or the second half of the 11th ...
Deborah (Hebrew: דְּבוֹרָה Deborah) appears in the Hebrew Bible as the wet nurse of Rebecca (Genesis 35:8). She is first mentioned by name in the Torah when she dies in a place called Allon Bachuth (אלון בכות), "Tree of Weepings" (Genesis 35:8), and is buried by Jacob, who is returning with his large family to Canaan.
Nicholas Love's The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ (translated from the Meditations on the Life of Christ) John Lydgate's Life of Our Lady (fifteenth-century) Walter Kennedy's The Passioun of Crist (fifteenth-century) The Life of the Virgin Mary and the Christ (fifteenth century) Jacob's Well (fifteenth-century), exempla
Deborah sends a prophetic message to Barak to raise an army and fight them, but Barak refuses to do so without her. Deborah declares his refusal means the glory of the victory will belong to a woman. [73] A battle is fought (led by Barak), and Sisera, the enemy commander, is defeated. [73]
The story revolves around Judith, a daring and beautiful widow, who is upset with her Judean countrymen for not trusting God to deliver them from their foreign conquerors. She goes with her loyal maid to the camp of the Assyrian general, Holofernes, with whom she slowly ingratiates herself, promising him information on the people of Israel ...
The Bible is a collection of canonical sacred texts of Judaism and Christianity.Different religious groups include different books within their canons, in different orders, and sometimes divide or combine books, or incorporate additional material into canonical books.
Neither does the Bible disclose the nature of her sin. Women of the time had few options to support themselves financially; thus, her sin may have been prostitution. Had she been an adulteress, she would have been stoned. When Jesus permitted her to express her love and appreciation to him as she did, the host rejected it contemptuously.
Mural depicting Deborah serving as judge Depiction of Huldah the prophetess. In the early portions of the Bible, the Hebrew Matriarchs seem to only be mentioned in connection with their husbands or sons, indicating an absence of the feminine voice and narrative in biblical history, an understandable position in a patriarchal society. [19]