Gideon Gideon Gideon () or Gedeon, also named Jerubbaal, and Jerubbesheth, was a military leader, judge and prophet whose calling and victory over the Midianites are recounted in chapters 6 to 8 of the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible. Gideon was the son of Joash, from the Abiezrite clan in the tribe of Manasseh and lived in Ephra (Ophrah). As a leader of the Israelites, he won a decisive victory over a Midianite army despite a vast numerical disadvantage, leading a troop of 300 'valiant' men. The nineteenth-century Strong's Concordance derives the name "Jerubbaal" from "Baal will contend", in
The Tribe of Witches and that "[a]ny novice historical linguist" could have told the author that his "tribe of witches" was a "phantom". Furthermore, highlighting that "very few pages are free of basic errors", he describes Yeates' thinking as "muddled" and ultimately considered "The Tribe of Witches" to be a "shallow, muddled and thoroughly underwhelming book" of no use to the scholarly study of either the "Dobunni" or "Hwicce". Other peer-reviewed journals to publish reviews included "Oxoniensia" and "Transactions of the Birmingham & Warwickshire Archaeological Society". In a short review published in "British Archaeology", the magazine of the Council for British Archaeology, the landscape