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HER STORY: Exodus Pioneers, Deborah
She was a prophet, a poet, a powerful judge, and she was called of God to lead her nation in victory, in prosperity, and in peace.
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Deborah is maybe the most famous woman depicted in the Book of Judges, besides Delilah. And what sets Deborah apart from perhaps every woman in the entirety of the scriptures—both the Hebrew and Christian Testaments, is the astonishing position she held in Israel.
As Judge, Deborah…
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Who Is Judge Deborah? The First Professional Woman In the World
Deborah
Deborah was a prophet and judge according to the Bible. Her legacy hangs on biblical reports proclaiming her as one of the most authoritative females of the Bible. Judge Deborah effectively carried out multiple extraordinary roles. Most notable is her role as a prophet, and her ability to give an audience to the voice of God. Coupled with an ability to commune with God audibly, prophet…
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Not me posting more Faye content once again 🤭 I just adore cosplaying her so much, I have always been a fan of Deborah Ann Woll since her True Blood days as Jessica and her playing this role was absolutely everything I had hoped and more! I had also recently heard she will be back as Karen Page in Daredevil Born Again so I am so excited for that! I always have such a fun time cosplaying as Faye and wish there were more audios of her to make more videos, Did you guys end up playing the DLC and if so how did you like it and what was your favorite part?
Perhaps I'II make random videos in the future as Mrs. Laufey 💛
#god of war#faye#god of war ragnarok#gow faye#kratos#laufey the just#deborah ann woll#gow ragnorak#christopher judge#gow atreus#Kratos and Faye#faye gow#god of war cosplay#cosplay
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Saint Deborah the Prophetess
2654-2694 BC
Feast day: November 1
St. Deborah was the Fourth Judge of the Israelites. Living in Ephraim, she was faithful and true, a prophetic voice of God during dark, sinful times. God spoke to Deborah to instruct Barak, the Israelites commander, to lead his army into battle against the Canaanites and their cruel general, Sisera. Barak refused to go into battle unless Deborah would go with him. She agreed but told him the glory of victory would be a women’s. God was with the Israelites and scattered Sisera’s army. Sisera fled to the tent of a woman named Jael, who killed him with a tent stake while he slept. Deborah herself glorified Jael in her famous “Song of Deborah”.
Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)
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Obedience Helps Obedience
When godly leaders are the first in obedience—no matter how difficult it may seem in the moment—they make it possible for others to obey God themselves.
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The book of Judges in the Bible records a dark time in Israel’s history. There is a phrase that is repeated multiple times in that book, “In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they…
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The only thing thats stopping me from writting some short stories about Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Susanna, and Salome is laziness and a sheer ton of ideas thrown around at the same time but one day man one day.
#christianity#christian mythology#early christianity#mary magdalene#maybe also about the virgin mary and anne or elizabeth#or deborah because there is quite a lot of interesting commentaring on her and the judges as a whole.
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Season 2 made Deborah’s relationship with femininity all the more confusing.
I wrote about this a while ago and how it could connect with her discomfort with lesbians, but s2 seems to have thoroughly proven me wrong about pretty much all of it. To be fair, that could be a misreading on my part, but it seems so contradictory that I’m not sure it is.
In that essay, I wondered if all the talk about the ways Deborah has felt oppressed by feminine beauty standards might lead her to really questioning her relationship to her own femininity.
Does Deborah do all of these things (plastic surgery, disordered eating, etc.) because she genuinely thinks these things add value to her life or because she’s been taught by patriarchal beauty standards that she must do these things or risk rejection?
And apparently season 2′s answer is “Yes, she does like these things and she doesn’t want to question them that deeply and, in fact, we’re going to not punish her for judging other women for not living up to those standards, in fact we’re going to reward her for it”.
Many times in s1 we’re lead to believe that a huge part of Deborah’s story is how she’s felt suffocated by others’ expectations. She’s spent a majority of her life trying to mold herself into the type of person that an audience would accept. She didn’t fight back against her depiction as a “crazy woman”, in fact she leaned into it. She didn’t buck back against feminine beauty standards, in fact she went to extreme lengths to reach them. She didn’t fight back against men treating her or other women poorly, she just accepted it in her personal life and, in fact, she spread misogynistic jokes to further align herself with the dominant worldview of her industry.
Season 1 gave me a portrait of a woman who is exhausted and feels trapped by all these standards but has no idea what to do.
Enter Ava. A woman who, by her very existence, challenges a lot of Deborah’s narrow views on gender and sexuality.
Season 2 basically throws all of that potential away for both Ava and the queer women she met in 2.04 to deconstruct any of Deborah’s biases about gender and sexuality. In fact, we see her doubling down on her view this season.
We’re not supposed to see Deborah’s ridicule of Ava’s less feminine appearance as anything that will be challenged or examined, instead Deb is just a bully and we should just accept that. We’re not supposed to read anything deeper about Deborah’s prejudice against lesbians, we’re just supposed to laugh at how the show reinforces her worldview about these women and we should just accept that.
Deborah liking feminine things isn’t the problem. But the lack of self-reflection or examination and the judging of other women IS a problem. And despite the show building up to an idea that this was going to be a key part of Deborah’s arc, they instead reinforced that Deborah’s commitment to hyperfemininity can’t be questioned and neither can her pushing those views onto other women. There’s nothing deeper going on here, Deborah is just judgmental to other women and it’s funny.
“There’s nothing deeper going on here” actually seems like it could be season 2′s motto.
#hacks hbo#hbo hacks#hacks#hacks thoughts#deborah vance#s1 was all about how deb has been oppressed by patriarchy and heterosexism and yet s2 just says it's all fine#she doesn't regret or even feel any of her choices need be examined#and worse she judges other women for not taking her extreme views#lesbians embody what she fears most: women who don't feel compelled to follow heterosexist beauty standards#and the show doesn't challenge her on this instead it says she's right that lesbians suck#literally the next episode after 2.04 she forces ava into a dress she picked out#and declares ava is now a woman#she's learned nothing#why introduce feminism and sexism as important in s1 only to abandon it?
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In the Old Testament’s Book of Judges, two women—Deborah and Jael—help defeat the Canaanite general Sisera. Now, archaeologists in Israel’s Lower Galilee have unearthed 1,600-year-old mosaics depicting their stories, according to a statement from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Led by archaeologist Jodi Magness, the team discovered the ancient art in Huqoq, at the site of a Jewish synagogue built between the fourth and fifth centuries.
“This is extremely rare,” Magness tells Religion News Service’s Kathryn Post. “I don’t know of any other ancient depictions of these heroines.”
The biblical stories portrayed in the mosaics begin when Deborah summons the leader Barak to fight the Canaanites. Barak and his army succeed, defeating all of the Caaanites but Sisera, who flees the scene to escape being captured by Israelite forces. He seeks refuge in the tent of Jael. She feeds him until he falls asleep; then, she picks up a hammer and drives a tent peg into his head, killing him.
The mosaics are divided into three parts, per the statement. The uppermost part depicts Deborah under a palm tree, gazing at the warrior Barak. The next image, only partially preserved, displays Sisera seated, while the lowest section shows Sisera bleeding on the ground with Jael above him. In addition to the mosaic, the floor also revealed a Hebrew inscription inside a wreath, along with images of four animals eating grapes.
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DEBORAH (2022), 3" x 4 ½"
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hi just wanted to let y’all know that if i’m less active this week it’s bc i’m leading on christmas camp!!!! so instead of telling internet teenagers to go to bed, i’ll be telling irl 9 year olds (and they’ll actually listen to me)
#i’m so excited!!!! but also scared of screwing up#like i put them to bed and i kinda messed up#i told them the biblical story of deborah (who i love) but judges 4 where there are a lot of names they wouldn’t recognise#and battles and potentially boring info??? they were nice ab it but idk i’m probably spiralling#AND A GUY TEXTED ME BACK AFTER A MONTH which is so fucking rude#point is this would be the funniest place to out myself#one of the directors dads works with mine so. ugh that’d be so fucking funny#also i’ve accidentally been using ‘guys’ constantly which. this is the ONE place where age and (out) gender wise i can and should use ‘girl#like i view it as neutral but is it for girls at this age???#anyway#eager for the rest of the week!!!!
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I literally tried to watch the new season of blown away and I couldn't even make it past episode 1
#not only am i peeved about the racism from the past episodes#but also they brought deborah out as the first guest judge#and it just didnt seem the same?#idk man ig im just not feeling it this season#blown away#blown away s3#blown away netflix
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Deborah, the Woman Judge
1 After Ehud died, the people of Israel again did what the Lord said was wrong. 2 So he let Jabin, a king of Canaan, defeat Israel. Jabin ruled in the city of Hazor. Sisera was the commander of Jabin’s army. Sisera lived in Harosheth Haggoyim. 3 He had 900 iron chariots and was very cruel to the people of Israel for 20 years. So they cried to the Lord for help.
4 There was a prophetess named Deborah. She was the wife of Lappidoth. She was judge of Israel at that time. 5 Deborah would sit under the Palm Tree of Deborah. This was between the cities of Ramah and Bethel, in the mountains of Ephraim. And the people of Israel would come to her to settle their arguments.
6 Deborah sent a message to a man named Barak. He was the son of Abinoam. Barak lived in the city of Kedesh, which is in the area of Naphtali. Deborah said to Barak, “The Lord, the God of Israel, commands you: ‘Go and gather 10,000 men of Naphtali and Zebulun. Lead them to Mount Tabor. 7 I will make Sisera, the commander of Jabin’s army, come to you. Sisera, his chariots and his army will meet you at the Kishon River. I will help you to defeat Sisera there.’”
8 Then Barak said to Deborah, “I will go if you will go with me. But if you will not go with me, I won’t go.”
9 “Of course I will go with you,” Deborah answered. “But you will not get credit for the victory. The Lord will let a woman defeat Sisera.” So Deborah went with Barak to Kedesh. 10 At Kedesh, Barak called the people of Zebulun and Naphtali together. From them, he gathered 10,000 men to follow him. Deborah went with Barak also.
11 Now Heber the Kenite had left the other Kenite people. (The Kenites were descendants of Hobab, Moses’ brother-in-law.) Heber had put up his tent by the great tree in Zaanannim. This is near Kedesh.
12 Then Sisera was told that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor. 13 So Sisera gathered his 900 iron chariots and all the men with him. They went from Harosheth Haggoyim to the Kishon River.
14 Then Deborah said to Barak, “Get up! Today is the day the Lord will help you defeat Sisera. You know the Lord has already cleared the way for you.” So Barak led 10,000 men down from Mount Tabor. 15 He and his men attacked Sisera and his men. During the battle the Lord confused Sisera and his army and chariots. So Barak and his men used their swords to defeat Sisera’s army. But Sisera left his chariot and ran away on foot. 16 Barak and his men chased Sisera’s chariots and army to Harosheth Haggoyim. They used their swords to kill all of Sisera’s men. Not one of them was left alive.
17 But Sisera himself ran away. He came to the tent where Jael lived. She was the wife of Heber, one of the Kenite family groups. Heber’s family was at peace with Jabin king of Hazor. 18 Jael went out to meet Sisera. She said to him, “Come into my tent, master! Come in. Don’t be afraid.” So Sisera went into Jael’s tent, and she covered him with a rug.
19 Sisera said to Jael, “I am thirsty. Please give me some water to drink.” So she opened a leather bag in which she kept milk and gave him a drink. Then she covered him up.
20 Then Sisera said to Jael, “Go stand at the entrance to the tent. If anyone comes and asks you, ‘Is anyone here?’ say, ‘No.’”
21 But Jael, the wife of Heber, took a tent peg and a hammer. She quietly went to Sisera. Since he was very tired, he was sleeping. She hammered the tent peg through the side of Sisera’s head and into the ground! And so Sisera died.
22 Then Barak came by Jael’s tent, chasing Sisera. Jael went out to meet him and said, “Come. I will show you the man you are looking for.” So Barak entered her tent. There Sisera lay dead, with the tent peg in his head.
23 On that day God defeated Jabin king of Canaan in the sight of Israel.
24 Israel became stronger and stronger against Jabin king of Canaan. Finally, they destroyed him.
— Judges 4 | International Children’s Bible (ICB)
The Holy Bible, International Children’s Bible® Copyright© 1986, 1988, 1999, 2015 by Thomas Nelson.
Cross References: Genesis 35:8; Exodus 14:28; Numbers 10:29; Deuteronomy 7:23; Deuteronomy 9:3; Joshua 11:1; Joshua 17:16; Joshua 19:22; Judges 1:19; Judges 5:1; Judges 5:6; Judges 5:15; Judges 5:24; Judges 5:26; 1 Kings 18:40; Nehemiah 9:24; Ezekiel 13:17; Hebrews 11:32-33
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Strong Women in the Bible
People think the Bible is misogynist, but....
When the Israelites were oppressed by Jabin, King of Canaan, God gave Israel a judge, a woman named Deborah who was also a prophet. God told her to go to war against the Canaanites and Deborah told leader of Israel's army, a man named Barak, to gather 10,000 men. He agreed, but refused to ride into battle unless she went with him. Deborah agreed, but prophesied that because of this, the Captain of the Canaanite army would be beaten by a woman.
During the battle, God caused the army of the Canaanites to panic and become confused. So much so, that the Captain of the Canaanite army, a man named Sisera, fled on foot.
He ran into a woman named Jael, who welcomed him into her tent and agreed to keep him hidden from Israel's army. She gave him warm milk and a place to rest, and when he had fallen asleep, she grabbed a hammer and a tent stake and pierced his skull, killing him.
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Judge 5: Deborah And Barak Sings God's Praises And Victories Over Sisera, Jabin And The Canaanites
1 On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang this song:
2 “When the princes in Israel take the lead,
when the people willingly offer themselves—
praise the Lord!
3 “Hear this, you kings! Listen, you rulers!
I, even I, will sing to the Lord;
I will praise the Lord, the God of Israel, in song.
4 “When you, Lord, went out from Seir,
when you marched from the land of Edom,
the earth shook, the heavens poured,
the clouds poured down water.
5 The mountains quaked before the Lord, the One of Sinai,
before the Lord, the God of Israel.
6 “In the days of Shamgar son of Anath,
in the days of Jael, the highways were abandoned;
travelers took to winding paths.
7 Villagers in Israel would not fight;
they held back until I, Deborah, arose,
until I arose, a mother in Israel.
8 God chose new leaders
when war came to the city gates,
but not a shield or spear was seen
among forty thousand in Israel.
9 My heart is with Israel’s princes,
with the willing volunteers among the people.
Praise the Lord!
10 “You who ride on white donkeys,
sitting on your saddle blankets,
and you who walk along the road,
consider
11 the voice of the singers at the watering places.
They recite the victories of the Lord,
the victories of his villagers in Israel.
“Then the people of the Lord
went down to the city gates.
12 ‘Wake up, wake up, Deborah!
Wake up, wake up, break out in song!
Arise, Barak!
Take captive your captives, son of Abinoam.’
13 “The remnant of the nobles came down;
the people of the Lord came down to me against the mighty.
14 Some came from Ephraim, whose roots were in Amalek;
Benjamin was with the people who followed you.
From Makir captains came down,
from Zebulun those who bear a commander’s staff.
15 The princes of Issachar were with Deborah;
yes, Issachar was with Barak,
sent under his command into the valley.
In the districts of Reuben
there was much searching of heart.
16 Why did you stay among the sheep pens
to hear the whistling for the flocks?
In the districts of Reuben
there was much searching of heart.
17 Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan.
And Dan, why did he linger by the ships?
Asher remained on the coast
and stayed in his coves.
18 The people of Zebulun risked their very lives;
so did Naphtali on the terraced fields.
19 “Kings came, they fought,
the kings of Canaan fought.
At Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo,
they took no plunder of silver.
20 From the heavens the stars fought,
from their courses they fought against Sisera.
21 The river Kishon swept them away,
the age-old river, the river Kishon.
March on, my soul; be strong!
22 Then thundered the horses’ hooves—
galloping, galloping go his mighty steeds.
23 ‘Curse Meroz,’ said the angel of the Lord.
‘Curse its people bitterly,
because they did not come to help the Lord,
to help the Lord against the mighty.’
24 “Most blessed of women be Jael,
the wife of Heber the Kenite,
most blessed of tent-dwelling women.
25 He asked for water, and she gave him milk;
in a bowl fit for nobles she brought him curdled milk.
26 Her hand reached for the tent peg,
her right hand for the workman’s hammer.
She struck Sisera, she crushed his head,
she shattered and pierced his temple.
27 At her feet he sank,
he fell; there he lay.
At her feet he sank, he fell;
where he sank, there he fell—dead.
28 “Through the window peered Sisera’s mother;
behind the lattice she cried out,
‘Why is his chariot so long in coming?
Why is the clatter of his chariots delayed?’
29 The wisest of her ladies answer her;
indeed, she keeps saying to herself,
30 ‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoils:
a woman or two for each man,
colorful garments as plunder for Sisera,
colorful garments embroidered,
highly embroidered garments for my neck—
all this as plunder?’
31 “So may all your enemies perish, Lord!
But may all who love you be like the sun
when it rises in its strength.”
Then the land had peace forty years.
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10- The month of Tevet (Dec-Jan)
10- The month of Tevet (Dec-Jan)
As we enter the month of Tevet, we enter the first of the dark winter months where we somewhat.hibernate because the days feel shorter. It is during this time of year that it may be more difficult to put effort into community and spend time out of our homes. While somewhat secluded we find our frustration and anger sometimes close to the surface.
Tevet is its a month to deal with our frustration…
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