![]() ![]() Get help with access Institutional accessĪccess to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. ![]() In 2008, evangelical supporters of the Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin celebrated her as a Spirit-anointed “Deborah.” Popular fiction writers gave Deborah a romantic life, imagining Deborah’s sexual liaisons with Lappidoth, Barak, and a lesbian lover, Jael. As a growing number of women joined the work force in the 1980s and 1990s, evangelical women imaginatively explored Deborah’s home life and public life in order to work out their own conflicted feelings about being working mothers. Female scholars, entering the academy in unprecedented numbers in the late twentieth century, offered feminist critique of the patriarchy found in Judges 4-5. In the 1950s, writers emphasized Deborah’s “housewifely” nature. Christian women invoked Deborah to defend female ministry. ![]() Regina Jonas, ordained in 1935, was the first of many female rabbis using Deborah as support for women’s ordination. Twentieth-century suffragists argued that Barak and Deborah’s political partnership represented equality of the sexes. ![]()
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