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Book of Judges

Deborah or Dvora
(דְּבוֹר
ָה "Bee", Standard Hebrew Dəvora,
Tiberian Hebrew Dəḇôrāh) was the
fourth Judge and only female Judge of
pre-monarchic Israel in the Old Testament
(Tanakh). Her story is told twice in chapters 4
and 5 of Book of Judges|Judges.  The first account
is prose, relating the victory of Israelite forces
led by General Barak, whom Deborah called forth
but prophesied would not achieve the final victory
over the Canaanite general Sisera himself. That
honor went to Jael, the wife of Heber
(Judges)|Heber, a Kenite tentmaker. Jael killed
Sisera by driving a tent peg through his head as
he slept.

Judges 5 gives this same story in poetry|poetic
form, and it is thought to have been composed in
the second half of the 12th century BC, shortly
after the events it describes. If that is the
case, then this passage, often called The Song of
Deborah, is one of the oldest passages of the
Bible and the earliest extant sample of Hebrew
poetry. It is also significant because it is one
of the, if not the, earliest passages that
portrays women in other roles than as victims or
as villains. The poem may have been included in
the Book of the Wars of Yahweh mentioned in Book
of Numbers|Numbers 21:14.

About Deborah personally little is known; she was
married to a man named Lapidoth, she was a poet
and she rendered her judgments beneath a palm tree
in Ephraim. Some people refer to her as the mother
of Ancient Israel|Israel.

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