Read Bible Passages JUDGES 4-5. Background:The Israelites (God's people) were being attacked by their opponents, the Canaanites. God would use this group of people in the Ancient Near East to ...

Some scholars, like Dr. Deryn Guest, an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK, and the author of When Deborah Met Jael: Lesbian Biblical Hermeneutics, have suggested that ...

Jael shows Barak the dead body of Sisera, as told in the Book of Judges (Illustrative). (credit: Wikimedia Commons) However, at the time there was a woman, Deborah, who acted as a judge ...

The earliest known depiction of biblical heroines Jael and Deborah was discovered at an ancient synagogue in Israel, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced last week. A ...

(RNS) — The earliest known depiction of biblical heroines Jael and Deborah was discovered at an ancient synagogue in Israel, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced last week ...

The Israelite commander Barak, as depicted in the Huqoq synagogue mosaic Jim Haberman In the Old Testament’s Book of Judges, two women—Deborah and Jael—help defeat the Canaanite general Sisera.

Deborah helped lead Israelite forces to victory over a Canaanite army, while Jael stabbed an enemy commander with a tent pole. Courtesy: Jim Haberman The Israelite commander Barak depicted in the ...