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Tell Me, O Muse: The Song of Deborah (Judges 5) in the Light of Heroic Poetry

Tell Me, O Muse: The Song of Deborah (Judges 5) in the Light of Heroic Poetry

Echols, Charles L.

Hardcover

Series: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, Book 487

Religion General Bible Studies

ISBN10: 0567026949
ISBN13: 9780567026941
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jun 1 2008
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

The so-called Song of Deborah celebrates a decisive victory during the era of the Judges, and praises Jael and the Israelites for their defeat of a Canaanite coalition led by Sisera. Despite generations of scholarship, virtually every aspect of the poem remains disputed, because it has been misunderstood in previous research. This study explains both the enigmatic role of Yahweh of the poem and its heroic ethos through a comparative study of heroic poetry.

Part I addresses preliminary critical issues, the most important being the poem's unity. Although the case for the poem's unity has merit, the stronger argument is that religious material was added. References to Yahweh occur in the original poem, but it is essentially profane, making it exceptional among comparable Hebrew poetry. How, then, do we account for a Yahwistic poem which primarily praises the human characters?

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