[PDF] The History Of Samson eBook

Author : Pnina Galpaz-Feller
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 23,23 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9783039108527

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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.

Author : David Maine
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 36,29 MB
Release : 2007-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312353384

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From the highly acclaimed author of "The Preservationist" and "Fallen" comes another unique and astonishing biblical retelling.

Author : Shawn Hoffman
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 44,98 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0849965063

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“You are a man who has vowed to protect his family, even at the cost of your own life. So you have no other choice. . . . You must fight, Samson. You must.” The year is 1941, and Samson Abrams makes a life-or-death decision that lands him, and his entire family, in the notorious concentration camp Auschwitz. When Samson is recognized by Dr. Josef Mengele and Commandant Rudolf Höss as a former boxing champion, he is ordered box for their entertainment. A win means extra rations, but the penalty for losing is death in the gas chambers. One question haunts Samson as he and his family face one atrocity after another: Where is God in the face of such evil? An unexpected friendship between the Jewish Samson and the Polish Catholic priest Maximilian Kolbe challenges Samson to examine what little is left of his faith, but will it give him strength when he needs it most? Based on true stories, Samson: A Savior Will Rise blends Shawn Hoffman’s thorough research with a compelling narrative that provokes questions about faith, hope, and love.

Author : David Grossman
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 25,12 MB
Release : 2009-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1847676871

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In exhilarating and lucid prose, Grossman gives us a provocative new take on the story of Samson: his battle with the lion, the three hundred burning foxes, the women he bedded, the one he loved and who betrayed him and the destruction of the temple. It reveals the journey of a lonely and tortured soul, whose search for a true home echoes our own private struggles.

Author : Erik M.M. Eynikel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,26 MB
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004262369

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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

Author : Hillel I. Millgram
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 42,73 MB
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0761869905

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This is a book about a book: it is an in-depth yet reader friendly analysis of the Book of Judges, one of the most dramatic books of the Bible. Against the commonly-held view that this remarkable work is no more than a collection of hero tales stemming from Israel’s earliest days in its land—its “Heroic Age,” so to speak—this study makes the case that the Book of Judges is a unified composition with a single focused message: that it is the values held by a people and not its politics that determine its fate. Further, Judges contends that there is a direct connection between the kind of values people internalize and the level of violence that racks their society, both inflicted from without and generated from within. And not least, that the presence of violence is a symptom that a society has abandoned the moral values of monotheism for the Machiavellian politics of a pagan worldview that worships power as the ultimate reality. The larger-than-life heroes and heroines—Ehud and Jael, Deborah and Gideon, Jephthah and Samson—who people the pages of Judges serve by their example to illustrate the way this thesis works out in the world.

Author : Bible Pathway Adventures
Publisher : Bible Pathway Adventures
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 38,50 MB
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1777216818

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When the Israelites begin disobeying God, He is not pleased. Why can't they simply obey His instructions instead of worshipping false gods? He decides to punish the Israelites by sending the fearsome Philistines to oppress them. But God still loves the people of Israel. And He has a plan to save them - a plan that includes a boy named Samson who would grow up to be a mighty warrior and help save the Israelites from the Philistines. Filled with colorful illustrations and biblical truth, Samson Mighty Warrior is part of the Bible Pathway Adventures® series of biblical adventures. If your children like gripping action and courageous Israelites, then they'll love this biblical adventure series from Bible Pathway Adventures. The search for truth is more fun than tradition!