Help me please. I have serious difficulties with this book. Are we feminist now ? I mean, a women wHo seduce, lie, and kill a desarmed men who were sleeping after some drink. I find it very scandalous with no honnor at all. And why should a women fight ? It's unnatural, and even commit a murder… Her scandalous behaviour is praised by everyone's in this book.
I'm with my phone please be patient. What does the church(magisterium, saints, church fathers) say about that ?
Thank everyone, if someone have a solution about the Bible being scandalous and even feminist…
It's a type of Our Lady, and another example in the Bible of a righteous woman crushing the head of a proud tyrant.
Remember, we're not talking about some black widow that kills men for fun. She slew the lustful nemesis of her people, who threatened to wipe them out.
Jeremiah Murphy
But women murdering people are ok ? Don't we have rules of honnor in war ? I don't see her act as righteous.
Tyrants? Sure. There is also a (quite ancient) line of thinking which suggests that the book is a long parable about "daughter Juda" going forth to smite her enemies through her faith in The Lord. Basically, it would be like a modern parable of Lady Liberty going to to crush the Bolshevik dragon or something. Whether you accept this or not is up to you, since most fathers accept it as reflecting a real life event.
Saint Joan of arc killed no one. Now go back leftypol.
Dylan Cox
The woman kills an enemy general by cutting off his head. The enemy general represents Satan.
HOMEWORK QUESTION Who does the woman represent?
Eli Morgan
Maybe it's because you don't believe in the ideal of honour in war that you accept every mean to find "victory". Yes, maybe victory in this world, but honnor worth better than any of this kind of victory. Rules of honour don't change according to the adversary.
Ryder Ramirez
You said it's unnatural for a woman to fight. You can fight without killing people. That's why she was burned by the way.
Thomas Garcia
Yes, I thought about it myself, but should we believe in this event as historically true ? If it's only a spiritual figure about the role of the virgin and of women in general then it cannot be feminist and there is no problem. Is that ok to reject it's historically truth and so to reject the moral lesson one can make out of it ?
