Breno Henrique Marcondes de Oliveira

BETH-SHEMESH AND THE CHARACTERIZATION OF SAMSON: A NARRATIVE AND GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF JUDGES 13–16

The story of Samson, often interpreted as an epic tale of confrontations with the Philistines, relationships with foreign women, and practices unusual in the Israelite context, takes on new layers of meaning when examined in light of its historical and geographical setting. Far from being accounts constructed in a vacu...