Book contents
- Why the Bible Began
- Why the Bible Began
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Introduction
- Part I The Rise and Fall
- 1 Abraham and Sarah
- 2 Miriam
- 3 Deborah
- 4 King David
- 5 Ahab and Jezebel
- 6 Jehu and Elisha
- 7 Hezekiah and Isaiah
- 8 Josiah and Huldah
- Part II Admitting Defeat
- Part III A New Narrative
- Part IV A People of Protest
- Subject Index
- Scholars Cited
- Biblical References
- References
3 - Deborah
A New Dawn
from Part I - The Rise and Fall
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 July 2023
Book contents
- Why the Bible Began
- Why the Bible Began
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Introduction
- Part I The Rise and Fall
- 1 Abraham and Sarah
- 2 Miriam
- 3 Deborah
- 4 King David
- 5 Ahab and Jezebel
- 6 Jehu and Elisha
- 7 Hezekiah and Isaiah
- 8 Josiah and Huldah
- Part II Admitting Defeat
- Part III A New Narrative
- Part IV A People of Protest
- Subject Index
- Scholars Cited
- Biblical References
- References
Summary
These lines are from what many consider to be the Bible’s oldest piece of poetry: the Song of Deborah from the book of Judges. In the biblical narrative, the song punctuates an epoch of the nation’s past, one that begins with Miriam’s song in the book of Exodus.
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- Why the Bible BeganAn Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins, pp. 43 - 56Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
References
Further Reading
Ackerman, Susan, Warrior, Dancer, Seductress, Queen: Women in Judges and Biblical Israel, Yale University Press, 1998.Google Scholar
Cline, Eric H., 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed, Princeton University Press, 2014.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Davis, Miriam, Dame Kathleen Kenyon: Digging Up the Holy Land, Left Coast Press, 2008.Google Scholar
Dever, William G., Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From?, Eerdmans, 2003.Google Scholar
Farber, Zev, Images of Joshua in the Bible and Their Reception, De Gruyter, 2016.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Faust, Avraham, Israel’s Ethnogenesis: Settlement, Interaction, Expansion and Resistance, Equinox, 2006.Google Scholar
Finkelstein, Israel, The Archaeology of the Israelite Settlement, Israel Exploration Society, 1988.Google Scholar
Killebrew, Ann, Biblical Peoples and Ethnicity: An Archaeological Study of Egyptians, Canaanites, Philistines, and Early Israel 1300–1100 BCE, Society for Biblical Literature, 2005.Google Scholar
Koch, Ido, Colonial Encounters in Southwest Canaan during the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age, Brill, 2021.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wright, Jacob L., War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible, Cambridge University Press, 2020 (open access) – includes several chapters on Deborah and her song.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Yasur-Landau, Assaf; Cline, Eric; and Rowan, Yourke M. (eds.), The Social Archaeology of the Levant: From Prehistory to the Present, Cambridge University Press, 2018.CrossRefGoogle Scholar