Timeline for How strong was Midian's army?
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| Sep 24, 2013 at 21:43 | answer | added | Tamir Evan | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 1, 2013 at 19:00 | comment | added | Tamir Evan | @MonicaCellio If I had sources to back me up( or a more convincing way of presenting it), I would have already posted it as an answer, instead of as a comment. | |
| Mar 31, 2013 at 16:10 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | @TamirEvan, that seems plausible (see my comment), but I can't actually source any of it. Can you? If so, sounds like an answer! | |
| Mar 31, 2013 at 8:55 | comment | added | Tamir Evan | My understanding is that the war against Midian was God's vengeance( 31:3), and the number of soldiers sent was symbolic( 1000 from each tribe; 31:4-5), and the victory was meant to be miraculous( i.e. divine) in nature( for all the Midianites that were killed or taken captive, no Israelite died; 31:49). So applying rationality( size of Midianite army, ease of victory) to the question won't work. | |
| Mar 31, 2013 at 8:29 | comment | added | Tamir Evan | @DoubleAA Considering the war being God's vengeance of Midian( 31:3), I'm actually surprise that they were even allowed to keep the young female virgins!( Or any of the loot, for that matter.) | |
| Mar 31, 2013 at 8:18 | comment | added | Tamir Evan | Did Midian even have an army? Numbers 31:7 using the language "va-Itzbe'u Al Midyan"( "ויצבאו על מדין") rather than "va-Yilachamu be-Midyan"( "וילחמו במדין"), suggest to me they weren't up against an army of any real sort. | |
| Jul 18, 2012 at 16:36 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackJudaism/status/225630202334674945 | ||
| Jul 18, 2012 at 15:47 | history | edited | msh210♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 18, 2012 at 15:46 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | +1 It's odd that they only plundered the virgin women and didn't take any men for slave labor. | |
| Jul 18, 2012 at 15:38 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | One possibility that occurred to me is that this fight demonstrated a victory of the few against the many (so to speak), which might boost morale for the conquest to come. (That would require Moshe to be confident of the outcome, of course.) I don't see support for that in the text, though that doesn't mean it's not there. | |
| Jul 18, 2012 at 15:37 | history | asked | Monica Cellio | CC BY-SA 3.0 |