{"product_id":"samson-and-delilah-j-cheryl-exum-9781910928769","title":"Samson and Delilah: Selected Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eSamson and Delilah. Well-known biblical figures in a tale of deception, betrayal and a haircut. Or is there more to the tale than this?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. Cheryl Exum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1910928763\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781910928769\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/24\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 334\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.06d","brand":"J. Cheryl Exum","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43993412862207,"sku":"9781910928769","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3125aaa9-46c1-4771-b414-1e9d3a196229.jpg?v=1683324205","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/samson-and-delilah-j-cheryl-exum-9781910928769","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}