Song of Deborah as Polemic

Focusing on its rhetorical structure, this article argues that the Song of Deborah in Judg 5 may have been composed not so much primarily to celebrate a victory, but to serve as a polemic against Israelite non-participation in military campaigns against foreign enemies. Possible implications of such...

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1. VerfasserIn: Wong, Gregory T. K. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Peeters 2007
In: Biblica
Jahr: 2007, Band: 88, Heft: 1, Seiten: 1-22
weitere Schlagwörter:B Polemic
B Enemies
B Rhetoric
B Song of Deborah
B Judges 5
B military campaigns
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Zusammenfassung:Focusing on its rhetorical structure, this article argues that the Song of Deborah in Judg 5 may have been composed not so much primarily to celebrate a victory, but to serve as a polemic against Israelite non-participation in military campaigns against foreign enemies. Possible implications of such a reading on the song’s relationship with the prose account in Judg 4 and its date of composition are also explored.
ISSN:2385-2062
Enthält:Enthalten in: Biblica