Big Ideas · 19 · Solomon and Sheba

From Deborah to destruction

Judges traces a downward spiral from Deborah and a mythic past to a historic past dominated by men, monarchy, and machismo that brings destruction.

Women and survival at the start; men and ruin at the end.

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The People's History takes its point of departure from that destruction.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 315

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