… , Samson and Jonah would be them. But Samson is far more criticized than the prophet Jonah…
Therefore, the advice we get from the story of Samson is mainly moral advice. But we have …

In this dissertation, it will be argued that the Samson stories were gradually composed by
scribes in concert with the broader textual developments of the book of Judges and the …

… He wrote numerous oratorios, including ones about Balthazar, Jephthah, Job and Jonah,
but not about Samson. There are two famous oratorios from Judges about him: Il Sansone (…

… This book examines many aspects of the unique figure of Samson: Samson as … ; Samson,
who appears on the stage of history as a promising leader but whose leadership fails; Samson …

… to compare Samson to Jephthah with regard to brutishness, Samson differs from Jephthah
in a crucial way: Jephthah famously keeps a vow, Samson breaks three. Samson has clearly …

… fables are compared to Samson's death wish. Finally, we describe Samson's burial and the
… In addition, why does the narrator mention for a second time that Samson judged Israel for …

… The way Jonah's belief in the unfairness of Samson's life was predicated on Samson not
deserving the attention and accolades of their father, let alone the world, because Jonah had …

… to Samson, which is more space for him than any of the other judges. The story of Samson is
… Samson’s fighting with the Philistines foreshadows the fights that Saul would have with the …

Samson’s mother is nameless in the Hebrew Bible. Little is said about her as a person. Roughly
two millennia ago, in three sources of Rewritten Bibles her character is fleshed out, she …

… the Balaam and Jonah narratives applies to what we see in the Samson story. Significant …
Jonah, God uses the storm and fish to send Jonah to Nineveh, but God could have sent Jonah …