Some Points of Contact between the Biblical Deborah War Traditions and Some Greek Mythologies*.

This paper examines three features common to the biblical narrative of Deborah and Cretan myths. In the biblical story two heroines, Deborah and Jael, bear names of fauna, bee and ibex (mountain goat), respectively. Deborah/bee's prophetic gift enables her to determine the auspicious moment for a vi...

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Published in:	Vetus Testamentum Vol. 61; no. 2; pp. 324 - 335
Main Author:	Vainstub, Daniel
Format:	Article
Published:	Brill Academic Publishers Apr2011
Subjects:	Bible Theology Hebrew literature Deborah (Biblical judge) Women prophets
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