Up until recent times, throughout the Near East, communities and their leaders were held responsible for crimes committed in their vicinity.
Prof.
Gary A. Rendsburg
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The Song of Deborah in Judges 5 is similar to both Arabic qaṣīdā poetry and ancient Egyptian epic poetry. How should we categorize it? Is it like the former, and composed orally by a bard, or like the latter, and composed by a royal scribe?
Prof.
Aaron Koller
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