Deborah, Huldah, and Innibana
In this paper I examine three female prophets: Deborah (Judg 4-5), Huldah (2 Kgs 22 and 2 Chr 34), and Innibana (ARM 26 205). The focus is on how female prophets are constructed in these texts and contexts. For the scholar of the ancient Near East, Huldah looks like a familiar character, with the tw...
| Published in: | Journal of ancient Judaism |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2015]
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Journal of ancient Judaism
Year: 2015, Volume: 6, Issue: 3, Pages: 320-334 |
| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion HB Old Testament NBE Anthropology TC Pre-Christian history ; Ancient Near East |
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| Summary: | In this paper I examine three female prophets: Deborah (Judg 4-5), Huldah (2 Kgs 22 and 2 Chr 34), and Innibana (ARM 26 205). The focus is on how female prophets are constructed in these texts and contexts. For the scholar of the ancient Near East, Huldah looks like a familiar character, with the twist that her authority is constructed differently from that of non-biblical ancient Near Eastern prophets. Deborah's combination of judge and prophet is even more noticeable in that regard. The construction of Deborah as a woman within Israelite society in that text is rather ambiguous. As I will argue, this ambiguity is characteristic of Second Temple construction of female prophecy. |
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| ISSN: | 2196-7954 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of ancient Judaism
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.13109/jaju.2015.6.3.320 |