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Samson and Delilah: Selected Essays

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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.

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  • Presents Judges 13-16 as a subtle, nuanced and highly complex narrative
  • Explores the Samson story from a diversity of critical perspectives
  • Invites readers to approach the story as an elaborate literary structures sophisticated theological programme

    Form and Meaning

  • Promise and Fulfilment: Narrative Art in Judges 13
  • Symmetry and Balance in the Samson Saga, Part 1
  • Symmetry and Balance in the Samson Saga, Part 2
  • The Theological Dimension of the Samson Saga
  • Literary and Feminist Readings

  • Samson and Saul: The Comic and the Tragic Visions
  • Samson’s Women
  • Cultural Afterlives

  • Lovis Corinth’s The Blinded Samson
  • Why, Why, Why, Delilah?
  • Notorious Biblical Women in Manchester: Spencer Stanhope’s Eve and Frederick Pickersgill’s Delilah
  • Samson and his God: Modern Culture Reads the Bible
  • In Conclusion

  • The Many Faces of Samson

J. Cheryl Exum (Ph.D.) is professor of biblical studies at the University of Sheffield. She received her BA, summa cum laude, from Wake Forest University in North Carolina, and her MA and PhD, with distinction, from Columbia University in New York. As a doctoral student, she spent a year studying theology and German literature at the University of Göttingen. Before her appointment to a personal chair in Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield in 1993, she taught at Yale University (1975-77) and Boston College (1977-1993). She has done research in Israel (first as a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research and later as a Visiting Research Associate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and in Germany (as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Göttingen and in Heidelberg).

From 2003 to 2005 she was Director of the University of Sheffield’s Centre for the Study of the Bible in the Modern World. In 2004, with two Sheffield colleagues, David J.A. Clines and Keith W. Whitelam, she founded Sheffield Phoenix Press, now a leading publisher in the field of Biblical Studies.The author of numerous scholarly works on the Hebrew Bible, her books include Tragedy and Biblical Narrative, Fragmented Women: Feminist (Sub)versions of Biblical Narratives as well as Fragmented Women: Feminist (Sub)versions of Biblical Narratives. She is executive editor of the journal Biblical Interpretation and a director of Sheffield Phoenix Press.

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    $48.99

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    Gathering interest