Why did Deborah have a more powerful role in society than other Hebrew women?

Answer 1

Deborah (Judges ch.4-5) chose to make herself a woman learned in Torah. Many Israelite women, throughout history were learned in Torah to some degree, but Deborah chose to be superlative in learning and piety, and God responded by conferring prophecy and victory upon her.

Answer 2

Deborah (Hebrew: דְּבוֹרָה, Modern Dvora Tiberian Dəḇôrā ; "Bee") was a prophetess and the fourth, and the only female, Judge of pre-monarchic Israel in the Old Testament (Tanakh). Her story is told twice, in chapters 4 and 5 of Judges.

Judges 5 gives this same story in poetic form. This passage, often called The Song of Deborah, may date to as early as the 12th century BCE and is perhaps the earliest sample of Hebrew poetry.

It is also significant because it is one of the oldest passages that portrays fighting women, the account being that of Jael, the wife of Heber, a Kenite tent maker. Jael killed Sisera by driving a tent peg through his temple as he slept. The account is interesting in that both Deborah and Jael are portrayed as strong independent women. The poem may have been included in the Book of the Wars of the Lord mentioned in Numbers 21:14.

In Hebrew, her name, דְּבוֹרָה , translates as bee.

Answer 3

Deborah (Judges ch.4-5) chose to make herself a woman learned in Torah. Many Israelite women, throughout history were learned in Torah to some degree, but Deborah chose to be superlative in learning and piety, and God responded by conferring prophecy and victory upon her. See also the Related Links.

Link: The Judges

Link: The Prophets

Answer 4

sHE was the CHOSEN ONE BY JESUS. Than her husband died in the war

Answer 5

She was one of the Judges; and she oversaw a military victory against the Canaanite general Sisera (Judges ch.4).

Answer 6

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