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There are 24 hours in a day, 24 books of Tanakh and \u2013 counting from Monday \u2013 24 days until Pesach. Count up with us at 929!<\/p>\r\n
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He taught at the Hebrew Union College (Jerusalem), The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Schechter Institute for Judaic Studies in Jerusalem, and at the Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheba, Israel. During 1993 he was Visiting Associate Professor at Yale University, and during 1996 he was the Stroum Professor of Jewish Studies and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle. During 2005, Bregman served as the Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica at Harvard University and was awarded a Teaching Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He also has served as Forchheimer Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the author of The Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature: Studies in the Evolution of the Versions (Gorgias Press, 2003). In 2006, Bregman was appointed the Herman and Zelda Bernard Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, where he also headed the program in Jewish Studies, until 2013. Bregman retired from UNCG as of July 31, 2017. 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This narrative begins with his dramatic proclamation: \u201cWe have no portion in David, no share in Jesse\u2019s son! Every man to his tent, O Israel!\u201d and ends with his being beheaded (20:1-22).\u00a0 In putting down this rebellion, Joab, David's captain, pursues Sheva ben Bikri to the fortified town of Abel of Beth-maacah. Just as Joab is about to breach the wall and destroy the town, a \"wise woman\" suddenly cries out from the city and convinces Joab to let the town hand over the rebel hiding there rather suffer complete destruction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n This otherwise unnamed \"wise woman\" identifies herself by saying: \u201c\u2019Anokhi Shelumey \u2018Emuney Yisra\u2019el.\u201d <\/em>In the biblical context this might be translated: \"I am from among the peaceable and faithful of Israel\". But the Midrash (Genesis Rabbah 94:9), interprets the word \u201cShelumey<\/em>\u201d to refer not to peaceability but to completion. This leads to the additional identification of the \u201cwise woman\u201d as the one who completed the number of seventy persons who accompanied Jacob to Egypt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n In its primary context, this Midrash serves to solve a numerical problem in Genesis, Chapter 46:8-27, which states that \u201cthe total of Jacob\u2019s household who came to Egypt was seventy persons\u201d but lists only sixty-nine individuals (see Ibn-Ezra to Genesis 46:27). The Midrash states that it was Serah the daughter of Asher who completed (hishlimah<\/em>) the number of seventy. Though Serah is actually named among the seventy persons who came to Egypt (Genesis 46:17), the Midrash here apparently counts her as two persons due to her exceptional longevity, having lived from the time of Jacob until at least the time of David. The Midrash goes on to quote Serah as adding: \u201cIt is I who conveyed (hishlamti<\/em>) the faithful (ne'eman<\/em>) to the faithful (ne\u2019eman<\/em>), Joseph to Moses\u201d. This is an elliptical reference to Serah\u2019s earlier role in assisting Moses to recover Joseph\u2019s bones at the time of the Exodus from Egypt and convey them for reburial in Shechem in the Land of Israel (see Mekhilta de-Rabbi Yishmael Be-Shallah 1).<\/span><\/p>\r\n In the Bible, Serah bat Asher remains just a name. But because her name is included in both the list of those who went down to Egypt with Jacob (Genesis 46:17) and also in the list of those who made the Exodus from Egypt with Moses (Numbers 26:46 and I Chronicles 7:30), the Rabbinic Sages determine that Serah \"spanned the generations\u201d from Jacob to Moses. Having granted her such remarkable longevity, the Sages go on to include this extraordinary woman among those few immortals who \"never tasted the taste of death\" and who are said to have \"entered Paradise alive\" (Yalqut Shimoni 2:367, Derekh Eretz 1:18).<\/span><\/p>\r\n By identifying Serah as the \u201cwise woman\u201d from Abel of Beth-maacah , the Rabbis develop this minor biblical personality into the undying \"Wise Old Woman\" of Jewish legend and folklore.<\/span><\/p>\r\n Image: Johann Christoph Weigel, Joab and the Wise Woman, woodcut, 1695 \/ 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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>\r\n 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>\r\n It is of note that this woman protests against those who \u201cseek to bring death upon a mother city in Israel\u201d (20:19). 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