(‘Shamgar’, son of ‘Anath’ (Hebrew: שַׁמְגַּר Šamgar), is the name of 1 or possibly 2 individuals named in the ‘Book of Judges’)
(the name occurs twice; at the first mention ‘Shamgar’ is identified as a ‘Biblical Judge’, who repelled ‘Philistine’ incursions into ‘Israelite’ regions, and slaughtered 600 of the invaders with an ‘ox goad’, the other mention is within the ‘Song of Deborah’, where ‘Shamgar’ is described as having been one of the prior rulers, in whose days roads were abandoned, with travelers taking winding paths, and village life collapsing)
(unlike the descriptions of other ‘biblical judges’, the first reference to ‘Shamgar’ has no introduction, conclusion, or reference to the length of reign, and the subsequent text follows on directly from the previous narrative)
(in several ancient manuscripts this reference to ‘Shamgar’ occurs after the accounts of ‘Samson’ rather than immediately after the account of ‘Ehud’, in a way that is more narratively consistent; scholars believe that this latter position is more likely to be the passage’s original location)
(the act of this ‘Shamgar’ is similar to that of Shammah, son of Agee, mentioned in the appendix of the ‘Books of Samuel’ as being one of The Three, a distinct group of warriors associated with ‘King David’)
(scholars believe that the same individual is meant, and that the passage in the ‘book of judges’ moved to its present location as a result of the mention of a ‘Shamgar’ in the subsequent (to the present position) ‘Song of Deborah’)
(scholars also believe that the name of the individual may originally have been Shammah, and became corrupted under the influence of the Shamgar in the ‘Song of Deborah’)
(the term translated as oxgoad is a ‘biblical hapax legomenon’, the translation into ‘English’ being made on the basis of the Septuagint’s translation into ‘Greek’)
(the other mention of ‘Shamgar’, that in the ‘Song of Deborah’, connects ‘Shamgar’ with a low period of ‘israelite society’, and thus some scholars suspect him to have been a foreigner causing the oppression of ‘israelite society’, rather than an ‘israelite ruler’)
(from the form of the name, it is suspected that ‘Shamgar’ may actually have been a ‘Hittite’, a similar name occurring with ‘Sangara’, a ‘Hittite’ king of ‘Carchemish’; it is also the case that Anath is the name of a ‘Canaanite’ deity, and son of Anath is thus merely a royal title)
(additionally, there is reason to suspect that far from being an ‘israelite hero’, ‘Shamgar’ may actually have been the father of ‘Sisera’)
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