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The primary problem that Mobley's book deals with is the odd character of Judges 13-16 and of its hero. Samson's special quality, noted by virtually all interpreters, is defined here as liminality. The liminal situation, which includes a movement away from society, the lack of social restraints, and the status of outsider, is a permanent condition for Samson. The secondary purpose of this book is to demonstrate the ways in which the Samson saga, which is often compared to the Greek Heracles tradition, makes use of ideas about wild men and warriors found in other biblical and Mesopotamian stori

Liminality in literature. --- Samson --- Samson, --- Shimshon --- Shimshoni, --- Shimshūn --- Simson --- שמשוני --- שמשון --- 222.5 --- Jozua. Rechters. Ruth --- Samson - (Biblical judge)

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Comparative literature --- Bible --- Samson --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- 222.5 --- Jozua. Rechters. Ruth --- Samson, --- Shimshon --- Shimshoni, --- Shimshūn --- Simson --- שמשוני --- שמשון --- Samson - (Biblical judge)

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Milton, John, --- Samson --- In literature --- Milton, John --- Samson (Biblical judge) --- -In literature --- In literature. --- Samson, --- Shimshon --- Shimshoni, --- Shimshūn --- Simson --- שמשוני --- שמשון --- Milton, John, - 1608-1674 - Samson Agonistes --- Samson - (Biblical judge) - In literature --- Samson - (Biblical judge)

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Shawcross proposes that the many ambiguities surrounding Milton's dramatic poem Samson Agonistes are intentional: the actual words, the dates of composition, the genre, and the characters - particularly Samson and Dalila but including Manoa, Harapha, and the Chorus. Ambiguity also lies in Milton's presentation of political issues both philosophical and practical, his treatment of gender concepts, the constant questioning of the reader, and the poem's effect. Discussing all these elements, Shawcross follows with a detailed reading of the text which argues that it remains purposefully ambiguous, reflecting Milton's own recognition of the uncertainty of the content, and suggesting that Milton himself would question some of the nice 'solutions' that modern scholarship has offered in the last two decades. JOHN SHAWCROSS is Professor of English, Emeritus, University of Kentucky.

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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 this wide-ranging collection of her 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.

222.5 --- 222.5 Jozua. Rechters. Ruth --- 222.5 Livre de Josue. Les Juges. Ruth --- Jozua. Rechters. Ruth --- Livre de Josue. Les Juges. Ruth --- Samson --- Delilah --- Dalila --- Samson, --- Shimshon --- Shimshoni, --- Shimshūn --- Simson --- שמשוני --- שמשון --- Samson - (Biblical judge) --- Delilah - (Biblical figure)