Samson and Delilah: Selected Essays
Hardcover 334 pages English Jul 24, 2020
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Samson and Delilah. Well-known biblical figures in a tale of deception, betrayal and a haircut. Or is there more to the tale than this?There is, in fact, a good deal more, as J. Cheryl Exum demonstrates in her wide-ranging collection of essays. Far from being a simple story, the tale in Judges 13-16 about Samson and his adventures, culminating in his fatal liaison with Delilah, is a subtle, nuanced and highly complex narrative with an elaborate literary structure, a sophisticated theological programme, and an ambitious and problematic androcentric agenda. It is, moreover, a story that lives on in literature, art, music and even Hollywood films.The eleven essays brought together in this volume investigate the Samson story from a diversity of critical perspectives and in a variety of its afterlives. Both Samson and Delilah are characters of many facets, as these essays reveal, and Judges 13-16 emerges from this investigation as a story that encourages and supports rather than resists multiple, often incompatible, modes of reading it.
- Author:
- J. Cheryl Exum
- Publisher:
- Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd
- Publication Date:
- Jul 24, 2020
- Number of pages:
- 334 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 1910928763
- ISBN-13:
- 9781910928769