User:Asarelah/sandbox/History of Jewish women in warfare
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- 13th century BC – Deborah, Judge of Israel, traveled with Barak, who led her army, on a military campaign in Qedesh, according to Judges 4:6‑10.[1][2]
- 13th century BC – Jael assassinated Sisera, a retreating general who was the enemy of the Israelites, according to Judges 5:23–27.[3]
- Rahab
- 2nd century BC - The Book of Judith was probably written at this time.[4] It describes Judith as assassinating Holofernes, an enemy general.[5] However, this incident is regarded by historians fictional due to the historical anachronisms within the text.[6]
- 690s: Dihya or Kahina, leads Berber resistance against the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb.[7] (Uncertain if she was Jewish)
- Gudit
- Dihya
- Faye Schulman
- Hannah Szenes
- Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma
- Yelena Bonner
- Sarah Aaronsohn
- Netiva Ben-Yehuda
- Vera Ducas
- Raquela Prywes
- Gill Rosenberg
- Suzanne Goldenberg
- Category:Jewish-American military history
- Rosalia Zemlyachka
References
[edit]- ^ Mills, Watson E.; Roger Aubrey Bullard (1990). Mercer Dictionary of the Bible. Mercer University Press. p. 779. ISBN 0-86554-373-9.
- ^ Howard, David M. Jr. and Grisanti, Michael A., editors (2003). Giving the Sense: Understanding and Using Old Testament Historical Texts. Kregel Publications, Grand Rapids, MI. p. 88. ISBN 0-8254-2892-0.
{{cite book}}:|author=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Watson E. Mills; Roger Aubrey Bullard (1990). Mercer Dictionary of the Bible. Mercer University Press. p. 779. ISBN 0-86554-373-9.
- ^ Branick, Vincent P. (2011). Understanding the Historical Books of the Old Testament. Paulist Press, Mahlah, New Jersey. p. 299. ISBN 978-0-8091-4728-1.
- ^ Marsden, Richard (2004). The Cambridge Old English Reader. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. pp. 147–148. ISBN 0-521-45426-3.
- ^ Jewish Writings of the Second Temple Period: Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha... edited by Michael E. Stone https://books.google.com/books?id=2zffXWORVUcC&pg=PA48&dq=Judith+anachronisms+fiction&hl=en&sa=X&ei=DnstVPu6JIGNyATW34KgAg&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Judith%20anachronisms%20fiction&f=false
- ^ Hannoum, Abdelmajid (2001). Post-Colonial Memories: The Legend of the Kahina, a North African Heroine (Studies in African Literature). ISBN 978-0-325-00253-8.