The Song of Deborah

Let's get right to the Word of God.

We're now going to cover an interesting chapter that contains what's known as the Song of Deborah.

But it's really the song of Deborah and Barak, and it recounts their shared victory.

And the Bible says they both sang together.

So they composed this song and sang it together, and it became institutionalized, if you will, in Scripture in this book of Judges.

So that's the, that's the setup.

The song of Deborah is a, a little bit hard to follow.

It seems to hop around from here and there.

A lot of scholars suggest that there are three phases to the song.

Jan Folkman, who's done a, a great deal of work on the books of Samuel, I think it's, don't remember how many volumes he wrote on the book of Samuel.

They're all gigantic, extremely detailed literary analyses of the books of Samuel, and he's written on other things.

But he has an essay on the Song of Deborah, and he suggests seven stanzas.

And the seven stanzas are punctuated by exhortations from Deborah to people to hit, to listen or people to join in the song.

Chapters 4 to 5.

With the song of Deborah in chapter 5.

Then Gideon.

6 to 8.

And they cried again.

And the Lord raised a deliverer.

Then we have the amazing book, The Song of Deborah.

One of the oldest surviving Hebrew poems of ancient antiquity.

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... or the Song of the Sea, or something like this, Song of Deborah, uh, th- we see these, uh, remnants of an ancient kind of Canaanite mythology that, where you have El is the high deity, and he apportions the nations, and Yahweh seems to just be one of them in Deuteronomy 32, which is really interesting, um, in its original form.

Now, in the Deuteronomy that we have, I, I think it's assumed that Yahweh's the El Elyon, he's the most high God.

But lots of scholars, um, have talked about the sort of evolution of-