A Mother’s Refrain: Judges 5:28-30 in Cultural Context
The Song of Deborah’s unusual language and style, and the potency of its imagery combine to make it one of the most analysed and debated texts in the Hebrew Bible. Although many aspects of the Song have remained opaque, there is scholarly consensus that it was composed in approximately the form we h...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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| In: |
Vetus Testamentum
Year: 2017, Volume: 67, Issue: 4, Pages: 505-518 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Judge 5,28-30
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/ Ugarit
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament TC Pre-Christian history ; Ancient Near East |
| Further subjects: | B
Song of Deborah
Sisera’s mother
Ugarit
woman-at-the-window
ivory
textiles
Assyria
Ramat Raḥel
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
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| Summary: | The Song of Deborah’s unusual language and style, and the potency of its imagery combine to make it one of the most analysed and debated texts in the Hebrew Bible. Although many aspects of the Song have remained opaque, there is scholarly consensus that it was composed in approximately the form we have it in the period of the Judges. This consensus is largely founded on linguistic analysis of the text. This article approaches the Song from a different direction. It considers the cultural markers found in Judges 5:28-30 and analyses what they reveal about the Sitz im Leben of these verses. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5330 |
| Contains: | In: Vetus Testamentum
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685330-12341301 |