Ruth–More Than Meets the Eye
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” Those famous words begin Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, foreshadowing the …
Deborah—Perhaps the Greatest of Judges
The more we examine it, the more remarkable the song of Deborah and Barak becomes. The two male characters mentioned, Barak and Sisera, are clearly …
Deborah Prophesies, Jael Fulfills
She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, “Hasn’t Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded, ‘Go …
Deborah, An Introduction Judge, General, Prophet
In 1975 my wife and I moved to Waukegan, Illinois, on the shores of the inland freshwater sea called Lake Michigan. We often saw the …
Rahab Prostitute and Prophet
The story of Rahab is one we tell to children, but we tend to camouflage one salient fact: Rahab is a prostitute. We tell the …