Endnote 5 – Giving Eve’s Daughters Their Due

The only incorrect image is a third-century B.C.E. sculpture of a Sumerian woman from Lagash, which is likened to Deborah. Chronology and geography are both in error. The fragmentary song and narrative of Deborah reflect the end of the second millennium B.C.E., more than 700 years earlier than the Sumerian woman. I recommend that a subsequent edition of this book includes instead an illustration of a “Deborah-like” ivory from Megiddo depicting a woman with long hair, a long robe and a staff. (For an illustration, see James B. Pritchard, The Ancient Near East in Pictures [Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1969], fig. 125.