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Wise Women 2: Mediators
Authority Israel’s wise women held authority. The very use of the title “wise woman” without any further identifying comment in 2 Samuel 14 and 20 suggests that this was a familiar role at least to the original hearers of the … Continue reading
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Wise Women 1: Mothers in Israel
Wise women played socially important roles in virtually every ancient culture. In Rome, ten Sybils—prophetesses—are mentioned by name in the prologue to the Sybilline Oracles. Oliver Gurney notes at least thirteen (perhaps as many as thirty-two) of these women by … Continue reading
Judges 1 Is a Kind of Table of Contents
The first chapter of Judges gets a little respect over at The Sacred Page. Yet whatever the pre-canonical development of the text, what is often missed is the literary coherence of the Judges narrative. In fact, the structure of chapter … Continue reading
All the King's Horses: Conclusion?
Having examined the evidence—what little there is—for military tactics in the Old Testament and comparing it to Robert Drews’ thesis in The End of the Bronze Age (Princeton University Press, 1995) that the shift from the Late Bronze Age to … Continue reading
All the King’s Horses: What a Bronze Age Military Expedition Might Look Like
We’re continuing to look at military tactics described in biblical texts as an indicator for the end of the Bronze Age and thus a test for or against various proposals to revise the chronology of the ancient world. There are … Continue reading
Mariottini: Jephthah’s Daughter
Dr. Claude Mariottini has written a three-parter on the difficult text in Judges 11. As he explains, the difficulty is not so much what happened to Jepthah’s daughter, but how to make sense of it. The Sacrifice of Jephthah’s Daughter … Continue reading
Pondering Generation Lengths
Nothing of great theological depth tonight, just a random thought: I had a great grandfather who was a Civil War veteran. Jasper Jeffers Sr. was born in 1843 and served as a corporal in Company E of the 11th Tennessee … Continue reading
