Surprisingly violent women in Judges

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Judges is also surprising in how it describes great deeds done by women.  Typically, we think of women as second-class citizens in the ancient middle-east (and in much of the modern mid-east).  Doesn't seem like a plain-old history written by mysogynistic patriarchs would have lionized females, but sure enough...

• Judges 9:53 - An anonymous woman saved her people by throwing a millstone down on Abimalech's head.
• Judges 4 - Deborah, a prophetess, was calling the shots as her right-hand man (Barak) was chasing Sisera when...
• Judges 4:9 - Jael (wife of Heber) brought swift, violent justice to Sisera with a tent-peg through the head

These are reminiscent of the Apocryphal story of Judith and Holofernes

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