The Song of Deborah (Laurence Olivier)

Play it loud! A great Olivier crescendo from Judges 4 & 5.

Read along: http://www.bartleby.com/108/07/4.html#S15 (Ch. 4.10, 4.13-end, ch. 5.)

Learn the story (illustrated) here: http://www.bricktestament.com/judges/massacre_of_the_canaanites/jg04_01.html

The song proper (ch. 5) starts at about 3:23 (but listen to the whole thing).

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* Pictures, Chapter Four:
The man himself.
Model of an Akkadian chariot from 2600BC.
Deborah the Prophetess (Robert Flores, 1999)
Deborah et Barac defont et mettent en fuite Sisara des Armées de Jabin sur le torrent de Cison (Willelm & Jan Goeree, ca. 1690, Amsterdam)
Deborah & Barak go against Sisera (Maciejowski Bible, fol. 12r)
Jaël Went Out to Meet Sisera (Judges 4.18, Public Domain Clipart)
Jaël & Sisera (William Hole)
Jaël's Tent (anonymous to me)
Jaël & Sisera (anon.)
Jaël & Sisera (Artemisia Gentileschi, ca. 1620)
Jaël toont Barak den verslagen Sisera (Bijbelprenten, Lunenburg 1672)
Jaël & Sisera (Gustave Doré)

* Pictures, Chapter Five:
Deborah (Charles Landelle, 1901)
Deborah, Prophetess (anon.)
Deborah the Righteous (anon.)
Song of Deborah (Doré)
Deborah (Donna Smallenberg)
Deborah (Debra Brand)
Jaël & Sisera (S. Maria Canepanova)
Jaël & Sisera (James Northcote, 1787)
Jaël & Sisera (Lambert Lombard)
The Mother of Sisera Looked Out a Window (Albert Joseph Moore)
Sisera's mother and her women (anon.)
Jaël & Sisera (Debra Band)
Jaël, Deborah & Barak (Salomon de Bray, 1635)

* Pictures Afterwards:
Jaël (Speculum Humanae Salvationis, ca. 1430)
Jaël & Sisera (mediæval, anon.)
Jaël & Sisera (mediæval, anon.)
Jaël & Sisera (Gregorio Lazzarini)
Jaël & Sisera (Jacopo Amigoni, ca. 1739)
Jaël & Sisera (Felice Ficherelli)
Jaël & Sisera (Rembrandt) 1
Jaël & Sisera (Rembrandt) 2
Jaël & Sisera (Marcelle Hanselaar)
Jaël, Heber's Wife (Tony Nsofor, 2006)
Jaël & Sisera (Bartholomäus Spranger, 16th cent.)
Jaël & Sisera (Palma il Giovane, Palma the Younger)
Jaël & Sisera (Schloß Eggenberg)
Jaël (anonymous mosaic)
Jaël & Sisera (Tissot)
Jaël (study in red chalk by Carlo Maratta)
* If you can identify any of the anonymous ones, please let me know. *

By the way, the name Barak (בָּרָק‎‎) means "lightning" and has nothing to do with the American president's name. It is, rather, cognate with Buraq (البُراق‎), the name of the anthropocephalous horse of Mohammed's Night Flight to the Temple Mount. On the other hand, Obama's first name (بارك‎) is cognate to Hebrew Baruch (בָּרוּךְ), meaning "blessèd, benedict". (As to whether Hillary is more like Deborah or more like, say, Lady Macbeth, I leave up to you.)

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[MidnightWriter8210]

My name is Deborah and my mom named me after the book of Judges (so she told me). I have always loved Olivier's voice and it is quite a treat to hear him read in the book of Judges about Deborah.

[Dakens25]

sqcc

[oursnoopy]

My Mom named me after Deborah the Prophit. I had no idea she liked the hammer so much. haha /Thanks Charlie you must miss me.

Love you Aunt Debbie