Prof. Elizabeth Backfish is associate professor of Hebrew Bible at Jessup
University in Rocklin, CA. She holds a PhD from Trinity International University in
Deerfield, IL, and serves on the board of the Institute for Biblical Research (IBR) as the
director of IBR Women. She is the author of Hebrew Wordplay and Septuagint
Translation Technique in the Fourth Book of the Psalter (Bloomsbury, 2019).
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The description of Deborah as a judge and prophetess is brief, but through her speeches and actions, and in contrast with other characters, she emerges as a prophet modeled after Moses.
The description of Deborah as a judge and prophetess is brief, but through her speeches and actions, and in contrast with other characters, she emerges as a prophet modeled after Moses.