Guiding Questions: Judges 5

This is part of the Tanakh Yomi Project.

  1. What is the overall construct of this particular chapter in terms of its form?
  2. Judges 5:4 makes reference to Divinity. Is this the usual description as it appears (for example) in the Five Books?
  3. Judges 5:6 makes reference, once again, to Shamgar but not to Ehud. How does this relate to the earlier text?
  4. Does Judges 5:8 indicate why the Israelites had difficulty?
  5. And, in Judges 5:8, what was the “military readiness” of the Israelites?
  6. In Judges 5:12 there is reference to Devorah in the “third person”; is this unusual in the poetry of that time?
  7. Judges 5:15 makes reference to the Rubenites; is this a “flattering reference”?

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