デボラ
デボラはヘブライ語でミツバチという意味。聖書中の人名でもある。
リベカの乳母。創世記第35章第8節に記される。
第4番目の士師。女預言者である。本項で詳述する。
デボラ（Deborah）は、『旧約聖書』に登場する第4の士師。ラピドトの妻であり、「デボラのなつめやしの木」と呼ばれる木の下で裁きを行った（「士師記」第4章第4節以下）。
[編集]概要
ギュスターヴ・ドレの描いた預言者デボラ。
この時代には、イスラエルの民が悪を行っていた背景がある。彼らはカナンの王ヤビンに売り渡され、20年間もの間押さえつけられていた。そこで民が主に助けを求め、デボラが裁きを行うようになった。このことは「士師記」4章に詳述されている。
「士師記」5章はデボラとバラクの歌である。カナン人との戦いに参戦した部族もそうでない部族も名前が記されており、部族が完全には統一されていなかったことが伺える。ヘブライ語で最古のものの1つと言われ、散文と詩歌の繰り返しという記録方法もその古さを示唆している。
[編集]関連項目
ウィキメディア・コモンズには、デボラに関連するカテゴリがあります。
デボラ (小惑星)
ゲーム ニンテンドーDS版『ドラゴンクエストV 天空の花嫁』の登場人物。
ナツメヤシ
デボラ級哨戒艇 - イスラエル製の高速哨戒艇。ドボラ級と訳される事が多い。
スーパー・デボラ級ミサイル艇 - 上記を原型とした高速ミサイル艇。
カテゴリ： 旧約聖書の人物
Deborah
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Deborah
Deborah in "Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum"
Born c. 1200 BCE
Died c. 1124 (aged 75)
or 1067 BCE
Residence Shelter in Mount Ephraim, which is between
Ramah in Benjamin and Bethel
Nationality Hebrew
Other names Debora, Dbora, Dvora
Occupation Prophetess of God, Fourth Judge of Israel
Predecessor Shamgar
Successor Gideon
Spouse Lapidoth
Deborah (Hebrew:
, Modern Dvora Tiberian Dr ; "Bee", Arabic: Diba) was a prophetess
of the God of the Israelites, the fourth Judge of pre-monarchic Israel, counselor, warrior, and the wife of Lapidoth according to the Book of Judges chapters 4 and 5.
The only female judge mentioned in the Bible, Deborah led a successful counterattack against the forces of Jabin king of Canaan and his military commander Sisera, the narrative is recounted in chapter 4.
Judges chapter 5 gives the same story in poetic form. This passage, often called The Song of Deborah, may date to as early as the 12th century BC[1] and is perhaps the earliest sample of
Hebrew poetry. It is also significant because it is one of the oldest passages that portrays fighting women, the account being that of Jael, the wife of Heber, a Kenite tent maker. Jael killed Sisera by driving a tent peg through his temple as he slept. Both Deborah and Jael are portrayed as strong independent women. The poem may have been included in the Book of the Wars of the Lord
mentioned in Numbers 21:14.
In Hebrew, her name, , translates as bee. The Deborah number, a dimensionless number
used in rheology, is named after her.[2]
Contents
1 Deborah's personal life
2 The Song of Deborah
3 Historical and biblical context
4 See also
5 References
6 Further reading
7 External links
[edit]Deborah's personal life
Grave near Kedesh attributed to
Barak or Deborah
Not much is known about Deborah's personal life. Her name in Hebrew is pronounced Dvora. Some sources, such as
Chabad.org, state that she judged Israel from 1107 B.C. until her death in 1067 B.C.[3] The Dictionary of World Biography: The Ancient World
, claims that she might have lived from 1200 B.C. to 1124 B.C., which would have made her about 36 years old at the time of the battle against Sisera, and 75 at the time her death.[4] The book also says that she was most probably born in central Israel to the tribe of Ephraim, and was also the author of The Song of Deborah.[4]
In the Book of Judges, it is stated that she was the wife of Lapidoth (Hebrew:
whose name means "torches"). She rendered her judgments beneath a palm tree between Ramah in Benjamin and Bethel in the land of Ephraim. (Judges 4:5 ) Some people today refer to Deborah as the mother of Israel because of the "Song of Deborah and Barak" found in Judges 5 .
Judges in the Bible
In the Book of Joshua:
Joshua
In the Book of Judges:
Othniel
Ehud
Shamgar
Deborah
Barak†
Gideon
Abimelech†
Tola
Jair
Jephthah
Ibzan
Elon
Abdon
Samson
In First Samuel: Eli -
Samuel
†Not explicitly described as a judge
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After being oppressed by Jabin, the king of Canaan, in Hazor, for twenty years, (Judges 4:9 ) Deborah prevailed upon
Barak to face the Assyrian General Sisera, the commander of Jabin's army, in battle. The victory to which the Bible refers is the victory of an Israelite force of ten thousand over Sisera's force of nine hundred iron chariots. (
Judges 4:10 )
When Deborah saw the army, she said, according to Judges 4:14 :
“
Up; for this [is] the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from Mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
”
As Deborah prophesied, the Lord gave the victory to the Israelites. Sisera fled the battle site seeking refuge in the tent of the woman Jael. In the Biblical account, Jael killed the enemy leader, Sisera. The Biblical account of Deborah ends in Judges 5.
After the battle, there was peace in the land for 40 years. (Judges 5:31 )
[edit]The Song of Deborah
Gustave Dore's interpretation of the prophetess Deborah.
The Song of Deborah is found in Judges 5:2-31 and is a victory hymn, sung by Deborah and Barak, about the defeat of Canaanite adversaries by some of the tribes of Israel. It is recognized as one of the oldest parts of the Bible, dating somewhere in the 12th century BC based on its grammar and context.
[5] The song itself contains a number of challenging differences from the events described in
Judges 4. The song mentions six participating tribes (Ephraim, Benjamin, Machir, Zebulun, Issachar, and Naphtali) as opposed to the two tribes in
Judges 4:6 (Naphtali and Zebulun) and does not mention the role of Jabin.[6]
It describes Sisera's death in a different manner. Judges 4:17-21 describes Jael killing Sisera by luring him into her tent, letting him lay down to rest, and then while he was asleep hammering a tent peg into his head killing him.
Though it is not uncommon to read a victory hymn in the Hebrew Bible, the Song of Deborah stands out as unique in that it is a hymn that celebrates a military victory helped by two women: Deborah and Jael. Michael Coogan writes that Jael being a woman "is a further sign that Yahweh ultimately is responsible for the victory: The mighty Canaanite general Sisera will be 'sold' by the Lord 'into the hand of a woman' (
Judges 4:9 ) - the ultimate degradation."[7]
[edit]Historical and biblical context
After the death of Joshua, the tribe of Judah led the tribe of Simeon in a campaign against the Canaanites and Perizzites, defeating Adonibezek at Bezek. Then they marched against Kiriath-Arba (Hebron) and defeated three more kings. The descendants of
Hobab the Kenite, father-in-law of Moses, accompanied Judah into the wilderness of Negeb but later left to live with the Amalakites.
Judah did not take
Ashkelon, or Ekron. The Canaanites continued to hold Beth Shean, Dor, and Ibleam. Zebulun was unable to drive them out of
Kitron or Nahalol; nor could Asher drive out the inhabitants of Acco, Sidon,
Achzib, or Rehob. The Amorites drove back the Danites into the highlands.[8]
Jabin a king of Canaan reigned at Hazor and the commander of his army was Sisera who lived in Haroseth-ha-goiim. The accounts of Judges 4 and 5 tell the story of a
battle at Taanach near the River
Kishon. Few allies among the southern tribes could come to the assistance of Deborah and Barak. Israel, which the song of Deborah and Barak numbers at 40,000 spears, was unavailable except for forces from the tribes of
Ephraim, Machir, Zebulon, Issachar, and Naphtali. While Sisera is said to have had 900 iron chariots, "the Song of Deborah" implies that heavy rain rendered them ineffectual.
[9]
[edit]See also
Battle of Mount Tabor (biblical)
[edit]References
^ Michael D. Coogan (2011), The Old Testament, A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures
, Oxford University Press, pp. 214, 219
^ "Dairy Processing Handbook. Chapter 3, "Rheology"" . Retrieved 2009-11-02.
^ Chabad.org - Jewish History: Deborah the Prophetess
^ a b Northen Magill, Frank and Christina J. Moose. Dictionary of World Biography: The Ancient World - Deborah
. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
^ Coogan, M. A Brief Introduction to the Old Testament: The Hebrew Bible in its Context. (Oxford University Press: Oxford 2009), 180.
^ Nelson, Richard. "Judges." The Harper Collins Study Bible, Revised Edition. Eds. Attridge, Harold and Wayne Meeks. (HarperCollins: New York 2006), 353.
^ Coogan, M. A Brief Introduction to the Old Testament: The Hebrew Bible in its Context. Oxford University Press: Oxford 2009, p.180.
^ NAB, Judges,1
^ NAB, Judges 5, n.4
[edit]Further reading
Bird, Phyllis (1974). "Images of Women in the Old Testament". In Rosemary Radford Ruether. Religion and Sexism: Images of Women in the Jewish and Christian Traditions
. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0671216929.
Brown, Cheryl Anne (1992). No longer be silent : first century Jewish portraits of biblical women : studies in Pseudo-Philo's Biblical antiquities and Josephus's Jewish antiquities
. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster J. Knox Press. ISBN 066425294X.
Deen, Edith (1955). All the Women of the Bible. New York: Harper & Row.
Lacks, Roslyn (1979). Women and Judaism : myth, history, and struggle. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. ISBN 0385023138.
Otwell, John H. (1977). And Sarah laughed : the status of woman in the Old Testament. Philadelphia: Westminster Press.
ISBN 0664241263.
Phipps, William E. (1992). Assertive biblical women. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0313284989..
Williams, James G. (1982). Women recounted : narrative thinking and the God of Israel.. Sheffield: Almond Pr.. ISBN 0907459188.
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[edit]External links
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Bible, King James, Judges#Chapter 4
Book of Judges article , Jewish Encyclopedia
Debbora , Catholic Encyclopedia
Biblical Hebrew Poetry - Reconstructing the Original Oral, Aural and Visual Experience
Song of Deborah (Judges 5) Reconstructed
Preceded by
Shamgar
Judge of Israel
Succeeded by
Gideon
v t e Prophets in the Hebrew Bible
Pre-Patriarchs (Bible) Abel Kenan Enoch Noah (rl) Eber
Patriarchs and Matriarchs Abraham Isaac Jacob Joseph Sarah (rl) Hagar Rebecca Rachel Leah
Israelite prophets
in the Torah
Moses (rl) Aaron Miriam Eldad & Medad Phinehas
Prophets mentioned
in the Former Prophets
Joshua Deborah Gideon Eli Elkanah Hannah Abigail Samuel Gad Nathan David Solomon Jeduthun Ahijah Elijah
Elisha Shemaiah Iddo Hanani Jehu Micaiah Jahaziel Eliezer Zechariah ben Jehoiada Huldah
Major Prophets Isaiah (rl) Jeremiah Ezekiel Daniel (rl)
Minor Prophets Hosea Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah (rl) Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah Haggai Zechariah Malachi
Noahide prophets Beor Balaam Job (rl)
Other prophets Amoz Beeri Baruch Agur Uriah Buzi Mordecai Esther (rl) Oded Azariah
Italics denote that the status as a prophet is not universally accepted. rl are articles dealing with the prophet within Rabbinic Literature.
Categories: Prophets of the Hebrew Bible 12th-century BC female rulers 12th-century BC biblical rulers Judges of ancient Israel
Biblical women in ancient warfare Given names Book of Judges
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