Judges 4-5 Jael and Deborah – Study Guide, Additional Resources

Recommended Reading:

• Gregory Mobley, Empty Men: The Heroic Tradition of Ancient Israel. (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library, 2005)
• Geoffrey P. Miller, The Song of Deborah: A Legal-Economic Analysis. (University of Pennsylvania Law Review 144, no. 5 (1996): 2293–2320.)
• Karolien Vermeulen, Hands, Heads, and Feet: Body Parts as Poetic Device in Judges 4–5. (Journal of Biblical Literature 136, no. 4 (2017): 801–19.)

Articles: (click to access)

• Deborah, at Encyclopedia Britannica
• Yael: Bible, by Tikva Frymer-Kensky, updated by Caryn Tamber-Rosenau
• As a Military Leader, Deborah is a Rare Biblical Character, by Andrew Curry
• First Known Depictions of Biblical Heroines Jael and Deborah Uncovered in Israel, by Kathryn Post

Lecture: (click to access)

• Yale Bible Study, Women in the Bible Week 3, Hebrew Bible: Women Warriors, by
• Dr. Jacqueline Vayntrub and Dr. Yii-Jan Lin

Art: (click to access)

• The Prophetess Deborah Ordering Barak to Take Arms against Sisera, 1728-33, Francesco Solimena
• Jael Killing Sisera, 1648-49, Rembrandt vanRijn