The Song of Deborah

Introduction

The story of Deborah is detailed only in Judges Chapter 4 and 5 Deborah , a prophetess takes up a lead position in Israel as woman judge to solve the conflicts of Israelites when being lead to the land of Canon . At this time , men were not willing to lead Israelites as Judge and at that Deborah took the lead position . Deborah would sit under a palm tree and solve the problems and cases for Deborah 's declare of judgment

Song of Deborah in Judges 5 is widely accepted as an ancient

literary song . Mostly it is compared to the Song of Moses that is written in Exodus 15 with a view that both the songs are aiming at victory over enemies in the battle . Deborah in the song , attributes the success over enemy instead of attributing the same to YHWH (Torah . Gregory Wong article in Bibilica 88 (2007 ) pp1-22 states that the prime focus of the song is upon the actions of tribes of Israelites and warriors There are many views that the song of Deborah does not speak about the victory of military action and in fact polemic against Israelite non-participation in military campaigns against external enemies

Song of Deborah was one of the early verbal tradition in the early times of first millennium BCE which is considered to be a ballad which worked to be influential among people , which is in native poetry of Canaanites . Judges chapter 5 is in close relevance to what is described in Judger chapter 4 . In fact the role of Deborah begins and ends in these two chapters of the book of Judges

The song which was originally written in Hebrew language , contains inset poetry and literature of Hebrew language which was in use among the early nations . were initially prepared the content and endeavored to rewrite with inclusion of literary words to be included in Bible (Torah ) which is basically was a guide of law . Women poets were seldom found in Bible until the Song of Deborah was included . Judges 5 :1-31 , written in 8th century B .C . Judges chapter 5 contains an ancient song of Deborah concerning about Sisera who is Jabin 's general and Barak , who wins over the Canaanites with the assistance and military leadership of Deborah . Deborah possessed qualities of military technics with which Hebrews were rescued from oppressive Canaanite tribe . Deborah was truly a great woman judge and a person who feared God in those times

In fact , Deborah was not the first woman poet and prophetess to write songs of victory in Bible . It was Miriam , sister of Moses , who was a leader , prophetess and poet who was with Moses and Aaron had contributed a song about Yahweh 's victory over enemies

Among the chapters of Judges , Chapter 5 is considered to be the finest treasure by scholars who are of the opinion that the song of Deborah is a true literary work which witnessed a historic events of battle in twelfth century

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