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Samson - September 15, 2005
Perhaps it's the JPS Tanakh translation, but it struck me that the Samson narratives manifest the broad comedy of a Babylonian myth or the legends compiled by Levi-Strauss. He goes about tearing lions like lambs, posing riddles, lighting foxes on...
Samson and Delilah - June 15, 2004
Writing in the Bible Review for June 2004, one Dan Clanton suggests that our perceptions of Delilah and the Samson/Delilah story arise more from art than from Scripture. He particularly contrasts the biblical account with the opera of Saint-Saens. According...
JSOT Articles - October 29, 2003
Several interesting articles in the current issue of JSOT: 1) Yairah Amit of Tel Aviv University writes on "Progression as a Rhetorical Device in Biblical Literature." The concept is fairly simple: He's pointing to places where, in narrative or speech,...
Edwards on Samson - October 03, 2003
In his Miscellanies, Edwards has some fascinatingly positive things to say about Samson. For example: "In Judg xvi. 1, 2, we have an account how Samson loved a harlot, and from his love to her exposed himself to be compassed...
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