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Jael may be the current, most abused person in the Bible among feminists and used to justify the type of nonsense that she herself stands in full, stark contrast to.

She was at home (Proverbs, Titus 2), engaged in domestic duties, and had no military or martial inclinations or experience (Deuteronomy 22:5).

She was peaceful, compliant, quiet, and disarming – every aspect and facet said the opposite of girl-boss threat, strong, independent woman.

She lulled a threat to sleep using the equivalent of milk, cookies, and feminine charm.

And then took a few common household implements and killed him in his sleep when he was utterly spent from a day or more of combat with men.

The example in the picture above is a good example of what I now call the “girl bossbabying of the Bible.”

Take a female biblical figure with limited information (which, by the way, is basically all of them. It’s only slightly better for most of the men in the Bible.

Ignore all that the text actually says and describes about her.

Run with hints, assumptions, guesses, or extrapolations, often in ways openly contrary to clear texts in the Bible (see Junia, Priscilla and Aquilla, etc.)

Frame her in completely modern terms and categories (like the Proverbs 31 woman) that appeal to feminist Christian and conservative women that actually turn her into something that she isn’t in the actual Bible and would be completely foreign to the time, setting, how life worked, etc. in her actual day and time but that is very appealing to modern women.

A rightly named book about Jael would be “submit like Jael,” “make milk and cookies like Jael,” or “quietly trust in God like Jael, “Keep your home like Jael,” or something similar.

But lead? It’s straight up Bible and word abuse.

She doesn’t lead a thing.

She doesn’t even leave her home.

The problem? Such titles aren’t going to sell any copies, get any big name and big reviews, or get featured in the WSJ like a book whose cover subverts the very nature of Jael in particular, and women in general.

This is what God had to say about women leading: “As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.” (Isaiah 3:12)

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