{"id":61013,"date":"2019-08-12T18:19:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T15:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=61013"},"modified":"2023-03-05T15:34:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T13:34:33","slug":"the-heroines-who-jam-the-gears-of-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-heroines-who-jam-the-gears-of-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heroines Who Jam The Gears Of Violence"},"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":[402,604,600],"acf":{"old_id":"61013","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":39842,"related_cahpter":"283","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Why are they nameless, while we remember the warriors carrying the decapitated heads?","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This chapter, like Chapter 15, brings us another nameless \u201cwise\/clever\u201d woman. Like the woman in Chapter 15 who pleads with David to reconcile with his son Absalom, this woman involves herself with the general Joab. But unlike Chapter 15\u2019s woman, she comes to Joab of her own accord, ready to negotiate for the fate of her city.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here is a woman who steps forward against an army with a battering ram to defend her city with only clever words. This unnamed woman acts as a de facto leader of her city. One must wonder: was she its leader? Did she act in the face of leadership who were taking no action? What did her neighbors think of her?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is of note that this woman protests against those who \u201cseek to bring death upon a mother city in Israel\u201d (20:19). Robert Alter, commenting on this chapter, asserts that \u201cIn this narrative reflecting a male warrior culture and acts of terrible violence, from decapitation to evisceration, a series of female figures &#8212; Abigail, the Tekoite, the wise woman of Abel &#8212; intervene to avert violence. The city itself is figured as a mother; its destruction would be a kind of matricide, and the wise woman speaks on behalf of the childbearers and nurturers of life in Israelite society to turn aside Joab\u2019s terrible swift sword.\u201d In Alter\u2019s account, this major city itself joins the rich lineage of women in Prophets who stand against the interminable violence of the narrative and the age. (See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/283\/post\/60977\">his commentary<\/a> on this chapter).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those who step forward in front of battering rams are too often forgotten in the rush of history. The people who put themselves forward to jam the gears of violence are left nameless, in preference for the warriors who leave blood behind them on the road and walk away holding decapitated heads. 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