{"id":56546,"date":"2019-06-02T14:21:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T11:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=56546"},"modified":"2019-06-02T14:21:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T11:21:58","slug":"retrospective-on-the-women-of-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/retrospective-on-the-women-of-judges\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrospective on the Women of Judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[],"acf":{"old_id":"56546","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":56547,"related_cahpter":"2007","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An overall theme of the Book of Judges is warning regarding the dangers of a society without structure. This message mainly manifests politically&#8211;the book records the war and anarchy of a lawless world. However, this idea is mirrored in the way women are portrayed. Paralleling the message of &#8220;In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did as he pleased&#8221; Judges endorses marriage&#8211;a crucial bedrock of societal structure&#8211;by championing the married female characters and negatively depicting unmarried women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deborah and Yael epitomize the praiseworthiness of the book&#8217;s married women. Deborah was both a prophetess and a judge and initiates the Israelites&#8217; military resistance against the Canaanites. The Bible includes within the first five words of her introduction that she was the &#8220;wife of Lappidoth,&#8221; even though Lappidoth never appeared in the story. Similarly, Yael, who emerged victorious as the killer of the story&#8217;s antagonist, is identified as the wife of Heber the Kenite. Later on, the wife of Manoah gave birth to Samson, who became an Israelite hero.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unmarried women, however, are portrayed much more negatively. Samson and Delilah are not recorded to be married; Delilah ultimately brought about Samson&#8217;s downfall. Similarly, the concubine of the Levite in chapter 19 was raped, and this led to a massively destructive civil war. 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