Dr. Michelle Knight: The Story and Song of Deborah in the Book of Judges

Dr. Michelle Knight is a professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. She is passionate about reading the biblical text closely, understanding its world, and seeing what it is doing on a literary level. Her expertise and infectious energy inspire students to engage with the Biblical text.
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We talk about a number of topics in this episode
Passionate about reading the biblical texts closely
Helping people to read to preach
Helping people read the text well, following the argument and thought of the author.
Judges 4 and 5
Who is Deborah? What is the significance of her being both a prophet and a judge?
Why we need to stop skipping the poetry of the Bible
The importance of Judges 5 being a poem
Judges 5 isn’t just a victory song - it is a prophetic word
How Deborah is theologically interpreting
Why is Deborah’s song one of the few parts of the Hebrew Bible in archaic Hebrew?
Parallels, connections, and share imagery between Exodus and Judges
The contrast between Deborah (4-5) and Gideon (6).
What is a biblical judge?
What is the deal with Jephthah?
The role of poetry in the Bible
How poetry is “theological education”
What is the unique role of poetry that is embedded in narrative
Listener question: Is Judges 5 exaggerating
Listener question: Why don’t we hear about Deborah’s husband?
Listener question about the significance of Deborah being a woman and what is there to learn about women in leadership from this story?
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[@bruciehibma6498]

I remember hearing a sermon on the Song Of Deborah related to the short comings and the flow of comforts the Israelites settled into. Seemed very historical in relationship to Israelites propensity to settle for so much less that God wanted for them.

[@mrh3894]

This is such a lame video. It's the oldest literature on the Hebrew Bible, written in archaic Hebrew compared to the rest of judges and the entire pentateuch. It lists the tribes of Isreal but leaves out the Judah and Benjamin aka the kingdom of Judah. Chariots indicate the sea people's invasion that coincided with the late bronze age collapse. You didn't talk about any of this.