Samson: Hero Or Fool ? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Samson: Hero Or Fool ? write by . This book was released on 2013. Samson: Hero Or Fool ? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Samson: Hero or Fool?
Samson: Hero or Fool? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Samson: Hero or Fool? write by Erik M.M. Eynikel. This book was released on 2014-04-10. Samson: Hero or Fool? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Samson is a peculiar character. He is the most powerful of the Israelite judges and three whole chapters in the book of Judges are allocated to him. Yet he demonstrates many weaknesses, not least for the charms of women. In the international conference “Samson: Hero or Fool?” organised at the University of Nijmegen in April, 2008, the texts of Judges 16-18 were studied from different perspectives, investigating how the complex character of this (anti)hero lived on in various ways in the later traditions about him. The contributions discuss also the reception history of the Samson traditions in later Jewish, Christian and Islamic literature, as well as his representation in figurative and performing arts
Samson, Hero, Martyr, Or Fool
Samson, Hero, Martyr, Or Fool - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Samson, Hero, Martyr, Or Fool write by Lynn Grossman Bartholome. This book was released on 1990. Samson, Hero, Martyr, Or Fool available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Samson
Samson - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Samson write by Pnina Galpaz-Feller. This book was released on 2006. Samson available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of Samson in the Bible is told in just four chapters of the Book of Judges, but the story of his life is composed of a mosaic of events. This book examines many aspects of the unique figure of Samson: Samson as the chosen of God, who is destined to save the Israelites from Philistine oppression, and who ultimately dies with the Philistines; Samson, who appears on the stage of history as a promising leader but whose leadership fails; Samson the dissolute Nazirite; a powerful man who rips apart a lion as though it were a lamb, who uproots the gates of the city of Gaza and pulls down a pagan temple - but at the same time he succumbs to his women and is ruled by them. This book invites the reader to contemplate Samson's highly contradictory personality, to take up moral issues, and to reflect upon love and betrayal, life and death, family and society - subjects that have concerned people from antiquity to the present.
Art as Biblical Commentary
Art as Biblical Commentary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Art as Biblical Commentary write by J. Cheryl Exum. This book was released on 2019-05-23. Art as Biblical Commentary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Art as Biblical Commentary is not just about biblical art but, more importantly, about biblical exegesis and the contributions visual criticism as an exegetical tool can make to biblical exegesis and commentary. Using a range of texts and numerous images, J. Cheryl Exum asks what works of art can teach us about the biblical text. 'Visual criticism' is her term for an approach that addresses this question by focusing on the narrativity of images-reading them as if, like texts, they have a story to tell-and asking what light an image's 'story' can shed on the biblical narrator's story. In Part I, Exum elaborates on her approach and offers a personal testimony to the value of visual criticism. Part 2 examines in detail the story of Hagar in Genesis 16 and 21. Part 3 contains chapters on erotic looking and voyeuristic gazing in the stories of Bathsheba, Susanna, Joseph and Potiphar's wife and the Song of Songs; on the distribution of renown among Jael, Deborah and Barak; on the Bible's notorious women, Eve and Delilah; and on the sacrificed female body in the stories of the Levite's wife (Judges 19) and Mary the mother of Jesus.
