{"id":101787,"date":"2022-08-09T16:21:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T16:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/36896397"},"modified":"2022-08-09T16:21:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T16:21:25","slug":"36896397","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/36896397","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of the first known depiction of the Israelite judge Deborah mentioned in the Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A panel at the Nebraska State Capitol building showing &#8220;Deborah judging Israel&#8221;Credit: Ammodramus; Public Domain ImageDeborah and Jael were two heroic women described in the Bible in the Book of Judges. Deborah is the only female judge that is mentioned in the Bible.According to the Bible, the Israelites were being oppressed by the King of Canaan. Deborah took matters into her own hands and commands an Israelite ruler to go into battle against the Canaanites. After the battle is won by the Israelites, there was peace in the land for 40 years. The second heroine in the Bible, Yael also plays a part in killing a Canaanite general during that time.In recent archaeological news, researchers from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill discovered the first known depiction of Deborah and Jael on ancient 1600-year-old mosaics. This is the first evidence of the existence of Deborah and Jael outside of the Bible.The mosaics were discovered in an ancient Jewish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A panel at the Nebraska State Capitol building showing &#8220;Deborah judging Israel&#8221;Credit: Ammodramus; Public Domain Image. Deborah and Jael were two heroic women described in the Bible in the Book<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}