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Our chapter relates the story of Deborah, the fourth Judge of pre-monarchic Israel \u2013 one of the seven prophetesses listed in the Talmud (Megillah 14b). Together with Barak and Yael, she is credited with having defeated Yavin, king of Canaan, and his military commander Sisera (Judges, Chapters 4 & 5).<\/span><\/p>\n

Judges Chapter 5 continues with the \u201cSong of Deborah\u201d (verses 2-31), sung by Deborah and Barak, about the defeat of Canaanite adversaries by some of the tribes of Israel. Biblical scholars have generally identified this poem as one of the oldest parts of the Bible, dating back to the 12th century BCE. The \u201cSong of Deborah\u201d concludes: \u201cSo may all your enemies perish, O Lord! But may all who love you be like the sun when it rises in its strength\u201d, and our Chapter ends: \u201cThen the land had peace forty years\u201d (verse 31). <\/span><\/p>\n

Still, the Rabbinic Sages found some fault with Deborah\u2019s behavior. According to the Talmud (Megillah14) she showed unwarranted haughtiness in summoning the male military commander, Barak, to her (see Judges 4:6). Nevertheless, Deborah has survived as the classic example of a Jewish Woman Warrior, who leads victorious Israelite troops into battle.<\/span><\/p>\n

A later example of a Jewish Woman Warrior is preserved in the legend of Kahinah, said to have been the Jewish princess of a Berber tribe in the late 7th century CE. She is credited with having led the indigenous Berber resistance to the Arab advance in the Maghreb She thus prevented, at least for a time, this part of North Africa from falling under Muslim domination, significantly delaying the eventual Arab conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. According to one tradition, Kahinah died a warrior\u2019s death at age 127, fighting to the end, sword in hand. Her grave site was named after her, Bir-Kahinah, near ancient Mascula, present-day Khenchela in the Aures Mountains in north-eastern Algeria, still populated mainly by Berbers.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the 14<\/span>th<\/span> century Muslim historian, Ibn-Khaldun, \u201cAl-Kahinah\u201d (\u201cthe Priestess\u201d), whose given name was Diyha, became the Jewish queen of the Berbers. She is described as a sorceress of enormous size with very long hair. Among the astonishing stories about her, she is said to have nursed, along with her own two sons, a former enemy after she took him captive.!<\/span><\/p>\n

The remarkable story of \u201cAl-Kahinah\u201d is preserved in a broad spectrum of Islamic sources and North African Jewish traditions that differ widely as to her religious identity: Jewish, Christian or a Muslim. In recent times, Kahinah has become a figure of resistance to the paternalism of Islam and a symbol of the struggle for a free Berber homeland.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Israeli folklore, Kahinah is described variously as a typical secular Jewish woman and a Zionist leader who continues to lead the ongoing battle for a Jewish homeland. Recently, two statues have been erected in her memory, one in Paris and one in Khenchela, Algeria, her traditional burial site.<\/span><\/p>\n

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