No raised eyebrows if thinking in absolutes, if presupposing an exact description. However was Samson such exact figure it, was he so complex as to create a double perceptive quality between such, estimates range, so as to make cutting of his hair not am absolute measure of good & bad?
If so such differences may vary the motive that Delilah may have had in mind.
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The characterization of Samson in the Hebrew Bible: saint, savage, or Philistine?
Daryl I. Bay
Abstract
The reader of narrative must realize that any “character is not perceived by the reader directly, but rather mediated or filtered through the telling of the (implied) author, the narrator, or another character.” The purpose of this thesis is to reconstruct as closely as possible the view of Samson that the narrator of Judges held and thus presented in the context of the Judges narrative. Was Samson a saint who provides a godly model for the timeless community of faith?8 Or was he a savage who acted antithetically to the ideal will of God? In reality of course, the answer lies somewhere in between. Our concern is how Samson is portrayed in Judges 13-16.9
C.E. Morrison
King David ranks among the most intriguing persons in the Hebrew Bible. The Second Book of Samuel tells the story of David’s kingship-his public successes and his private foibles. The narrator’s rehearsal of this story, as questioning as it is vivid, glimpses the secrets of David’s heart. In this commentary, Craig E. Morrison focuses on the aesthetics of the “art of the telling”: how does the narrator succeed in breathing life into his portrait of David? How does he draw the reader into his story? This commentary is intended to accompany the reader’s encounter with this ancient masterpiece so that one might cheer with David as he dances before the ark of God and weep with him as he grieves the death of his rebel son Absalom. Morrison’s careful reading of 2 Samuel brings the reader face-to-face with David, whose multifaceted character eludes facile labels. © 2013 by Order of Saint Benedict, Collegeville, Minnesota. All rights reserved.
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The Call Narratives of the Hebrew Bible had been the subject of many commentaries. However, they have never been read from a process theology perspective. The analysis here takes this approach, drawing upon some process concepts such as the initial aim, the subjective aim and the creative advance. Ignoring for the moment the psychological or historical aspects of the narrations, this study attends to the basal lures the authors inscribed in their texts. In them is found a call to leave behind well-established, secure modes of thinking and doing, and replace them, in an act of continuity as well as of rupture, with new ways of interaction and mutual becoming with ourselves,
When God appears in the story:
Jean-Pierre Sonn
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The point is that the modality within who h interpretation is made is of many levels, and characterisation is off the reason for its variance, and thus it may be the cause of a jump to judgement.
It is the understanding of basic structural varience between two primary antithetical charecteriasations which give rise to the multitude of value infused judgements in between.
That is what implies a cause between primary and secondary differentiation, and the etymology ofnthe primary has direct need to get to know . or get in touch with the source.
Otherwise , the presumption , of raising eyebrows, may become as unfathomable as merely a sign of an unfounded displeasurable , source, albeit open , not closed to the reduced acquisition of the real motive.
Therefore Jesus saying " Forgive them Father, for they know not of what they are doing" becomes more ind
ucive.
Sorry Silhuette I simply had to squeeze this in.