Samson Mosaics

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20046723
AutoresMahri Leonard-Fleckman (autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Páginas130-153
Fecha de publicación2024-11-28
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoCHAPTER
RevistaScribal Representations and Social Landscapes of the Iron Age Shephelah (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialOxford University PressNew York, NY (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/9780197652992.003.0006
OpenAlexW4404860473
ISBN9780197652992
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas165

In Chapter 6, Samson is the axis around which to explore textual development and history writing. The chapter argues that over time, Samson has functioned as a site of cultural memory and scribal discourse about the Shephelah relative to Israel and Judah’s histories. He is therefore a window into the continuous nature of historiography. The chapter probes Samson’s ongoing creation in composition and reception histories, from plausible mythological antecedents to a possible connection with Saul as early Israelite heroes, to his eventual placement in Judges and rewriting in Josephus’s Antiquities, continuing into modern reception. The chapter closes by returning to the archaeological remains from Tel Batash to interrogate the problematic use of biblical categories of identity in archaeological reconstructions and to argue that the composite artistry of the Samson cycle demonstrates a diversity of perspectives on his identity across space and time

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