10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SISERA»
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Sisera in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Sisera and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Flavius Josephus: Judean Antiquities
Jael kills Sisera showed him nailed to the ground.540 emotional state of Barak
and his army in the face of the vastly superior enemy force. Compare Josephus' (
also inserted) reference to the dismay of Joshua and the Israelites prompted by ...
Flavius Josephus, Steve Mason, 2004
2
The Child's Story Bible
HOW. DEATH. CAME. TO. SISERA. JUDGES 4, 5 Chapter 60 GOD APPEARS TO
GIDEON JUDGES 6 Chapter 61. When Ehud was dead, the children of Israel did
evil in the sight of the Lord again. Then God allowed Jabin, who was king of ...
3
Bringing the Hidden to Light: The Process of Interpretation ...
her feet.45 For him to fall that way, Sisera would have had to be standing in front
of Jael, very close to her legs. Mieke Bal questions twice whether Sisera is “really
standing” before Jael. She concludes, “disregarding the realist criterion, the ...
Kathryn F. Kravitz, Diane M. Sharon, 2007
4
Murder and Difference: Gender, Genre, and Scholarship on ...
"... an important contribution to current literary concerns with the ideologies of texts.
5
The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the ...
12–13: Sisera's deployment. 14: Deborah, for a second time, commands Barak,
giving assurance of victory through the Lord. 15–16: Sisera is defeated (cf. Ex
14.24; Josh 10.10); Barak expends tremendous effort in pursuing the 4.17–22:
The ...
Michael David Coogan, Marc Zvi Brettler, Carol Ann Newsom, 2007
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The Bible Exposition Commentary
When Heber's wife, Jael, came out to meet Sisera and invited him into her tent,
the Canaanite captain was sure that he was at last safe. After all, in that culture
nobody would dare enter a wife's tent except her husband. Jael gave him milk ...
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All the Women of the Bible
ite, whose wife Jael met Sisera and urged him not to be afraid but to turn in and
rest. Seeing how worn and weary Sisera was, Jael covered him with a mantle,
and when he asked for water to slake his thirst she opened a bottle of milk for him
to ...
8
Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women ...
1100 B.C.E.) celebrating a major Israelite victory over the Canaanites, Deborah
taunts the mother of the Canaanite general Sisera. Sisera's mother is sitting and
peering through the lattice of her window, wondering what delays her son's return
...
Carol L. Meyers, Toni Craven, Ross Shepard Kraemer, 2001
Jael: Heroine? or Traitor? Jael, the wife of Heber, is the woman referred to by
Deborah in her words to Barak: "the Lord will give Sisera over into the hand of a
woman" (Judg. 4:9). Heber, the chief of the seminomadic Kenite clan, had
remained ...
10
The Strange Woman: Power and Sex in the Bible
softly" to Sisera where he is lying asleep "from weariness," but, far from softly or
gently, she drives a tent peg through his open mouth,41 thus pinning his skull to
the ground. Deborah's prophecy is fulfilled: the hand of YHWH is a woman's hand
.
Gail Corrington Streete, 1997
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SISERA»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
Sisera is used in the context of the following news items.
The only woman Judge of the Israelites
2 And the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the ... «Union Daily Times, Jul 15»
Who Was Jael In The Bible? A Character Study
One day Deborah was sitting under the Palm Tree of Deborah, and the Israelites came up to her to ask what to do about Sisera. (The Palm Tree of Deborah is ... «Patheos, Jul 15»
MK Eichler Brings Torah Sages Ruling on Internet to Knesset
Micki Levy: “It's the Yeted of Sisera.” This is a clever play on words. Yeted is the name of a Haredi news source, but the word itself means 'peg'. In the bible ... «JP Updates, Jul 15»
The New Critical Mass of Orthodox Women Rabbis
She responded by saying, “But then, people will say that Sisera fell to a woman.” Barak, perhaps the first recorded feminist man, was unmoved. He had no ... «Jewish Daily Forward, Jun 15»
MIA's 'The Art of Murder' slays
Lucas van Leyden's “Jael Killing Sisera” is a prime example, a beautifully detailed 1516 woodcut of a serene matron using a sturdy mallet to pound a tent stake ... «vita.mn, Mar 15»
The seven most overlooked women in Scripture
A battle ensues between the two armies and Israel wins by a landslide, forcing Jabin's leader, Sisera, to flee on foot. He seeks solace in a camp set up by Heber, ... «ChristianToday, Mar 15»
Redacted Bible Stories: Yael
Yael: drags cigarette sure. Ur ruthless. I admire that in a man. Besides, what r friends for, right? Sisera: thank u!! ohhhh thank u!!! how can I ever thank you. «Jewish Daily Forward, Dec 14»
'Dancing With the Stars' recap, Can Tommy Chong make it past the …
True, Jael staked Sisera to the ground with a tent peg and mallet, not a javelin, but they're both pointy sticks. Or they could have been Herod and Salome, ... «Baltimore Sun, Nov 14»
Shirley A. Murray (Mente)
... Bob Mente and his wife Eileen, her son William Murray and daughter Michelle Murray, her grandson DJ Murray and granddaughter Liliana Sisera-Murray, her ... «WatertownDailyTimes.com, Oct 14»
The Sermon For The Teenagers
In the book of Judges, Yael kills the Canaanite general Sisera by luring him into her tent and letting him think that he was going to get lucky that night. King David ... «The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A., Oct 14»
