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| Named Person: | Samson, (Biblical judge) |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Grossman |
| ISBN: | 0753177161 9780753177167 075317717X 9780753177174 |
| OCLC Number: | 70230125 |
| Notes: | Originally published: Edinburgh: Canongate. |
| Description: | p. cm. |
| Responsibility: | David Grossman ; translated from the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman. |
Abstract:
There are few other Bible stories with so much drama and action, narrative fireworks and raw emotion, as we find in the tale of Samson: the battle with the lion; the three hundred burning foxes; the women he bedded and the one woman that he loved; his betrayal by all the women in his life, from his mother to Delilah; and, in the end, his murderous suicide, when he brought the house down on himself and three thousand Philistines.
Yet, beyond the wild impulsiveness, the chaos, the din, we can make out a life story that is, at bottom, the tortured journey of a single, lonely and turbulent soul who never found, anywhere, a true home in the world, whose very body was a harsh place of exile.
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