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Judging Deborah: Letting the Narrative and Poetry Speak

 |  Kathleen Nielson
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Stream or download the audio recording from this breakout session titled Judging Deborah: Letting the Narrative and Poetry Speak with Kathleen Nielson that was delivered at The Gospel Coalition’s 2019 National Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana. Often a woman like Deborah is used as a pawn in an argument for one position or another, especially regarding roles of women. In this session we don’t argue for a position taken from Deborah’s story but for a close reading of the text itself (Judges 4–5)—as narrative and as poetry. In practicing these literary tools, we encounter a strong godly woman who hears, obeys, and speaks God’s Word.

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Kathleen Nielson is an author and speaker who loves working with women in studying the Scriptures. She has taught literature (PhD, Vanderbilt University), directed women’s Bible studies in local churches, and served as director of The Gospel Coalition’s women’s initiatives from 2010 to 2017. She and her husband, Niel, make their home partly in Wheaton, Illinois, and partly in Jakarta, Indonesia, where Niel helps lead a network of Christian schools and universities. They have three sons, three daughters-in-law, and nine grandchildren.