Sisera's mother and her ladies
May. 10th, 2008 08:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zeborah(It's been almost a year since I started these, and an awfully long time since I last posted one. Let's see how long this new resolution to keep up with them lasts.)
I suspect Sisera's mother (Judges 5:28-30) is just a rhetorical device, a character invented by Deborah and Barak to add a bit more gloating material to their song of victory over Sisera. She is depicted as peering through the window latice, wondering why her son is taking so long to get home. She and her ladies try to convince her that he's just taking his time over the spoils of war -- girls, pretty clothes, etc. It'd be a pitiful image, if it weren't in such a gleeful tone; though a mother herself, Deborah doesn't seem to sympathise with this woman's plight, but only to mock it.
I suspect Sisera's mother (Judges 5:28-30) is just a rhetorical device, a character invented by Deborah and Barak to add a bit more gloating material to their song of victory over Sisera. She is depicted as peering through the window latice, wondering why her son is taking so long to get home. She and her ladies try to convince her that he's just taking his time over the spoils of war -- girls, pretty clothes, etc. It'd be a pitiful image, if it weren't in such a gleeful tone; though a mother herself, Deborah doesn't seem to sympathise with this woman's plight, but only to mock it.
