Empowering Women Through Scripture
Judges 16
List of Reading & Resources:
Articles
Rethinking Samson, Seeing Delilah
“Delilah: Bible” by J. Cheryl Exum
“Femmes Fatales in the Bible” by Hilary Lipka
“Who Cut Samson’s Hair? (And Other Trifling Questions Raised by Judges)” by Jack M. Sasson
Books
“Why, Why, Delilah?” (pp.209-276) in Plotted, Shot, and Painted: Cultural Representations of Biblical Women by J. Cheryl Exum (2012)
“Delilah and Her Interpreters” (pp. 138-141) by Josey Bridges Snyder in The Women’s Bible Commentary (2012)
“‘Ravish Them and Do to Them Whatever You Want’: Delilah, The Levite's Concubine, and Determining the Status of Men’s Lovers and Wives” (Ch.5) from Warrior, Dancer, Seductress, Queen: Women in Judges and Biblical Israel by Susan Ackerman (1998)
“Delilah Decomposed: Samson’s Talking Cure and the Rhetoric of Subjectivity” (Ch.2) from Lethal Love: Feminist Literary Readings of Biblical Love Stories by Mieke Bal (1987)