After a two-year pandemic pause, a team of archaeologists, academics, and students, led by Dr. Jodi Magness of the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, returned to the Lower Galilee ...

The first thing I’m noticing about the Book of Judges is that there don’t appear to be any judges in it. Sure, they may be called “judges,” but they’re really generals, left-handed assassins, female ...

Chapter 9 As I wrote a few days ago, the central message of Judges is that the absence of a strong ruler produces barbarous anarchy. But this chapter’s lesson? Kings aren’t always so hotsy-totsy ...

“Deborah, the wife of Lappidoth, was a prophet who was judging Israel at that time. She would sit under the Palm of Deborah, between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites ...

Last February, Union Theological Seminary hosted Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for our annual Judith Davidson Moyers Women of Spirit Lecture. It’s an honor given to women whose work is ...

The Journal of Biblical Literature (JBL) is a quarterly periodical that promotes critical and academic biblical scholarship. Bringing the highest level of technical expertise to bear on the canon, ...

The ancient mosaics, identified by the biblical heroine’s telltale tent stake, were discovered during a synagogue excavation in Galilee. The earliest known depiction of biblical heroines Jael and ...

This article explores the literary and ideological dimensions of zoomorphic names for Deborah (bee) and Huldah (weasel)—two of the Hebrew Bible female prophets. The two women stand out among the ...

The inscription represents a rare and valuable clue to the development and spread of writing systems in the region. Dafna Gazit / Israel Antiquities Authority Archaeologists in southern Israel have ...