Empowering Women Through Scripture
2 Future verse here. Judges 13:2
Judges 13:2-25; 14:2-9, 16; 16:17
List of Reading & Resources:
Articles
“Samson” by A. Paige Rawson
“Barrenness” by Cynthia R. Chapman
“Samson's Mother: An Unnamed Protagonist” by Adele Reinhartz
Books
“Mother of Samson” (pp.245-246) by J.Cheryl Exum in Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testament edited by Carol Meyers (2001)
“The Literary Characterization of Mothers and Sexual Politics in the Hebrew Bible” (pp.127-140) by Esther Fuchs in Women in the Hebrew Bible: A Reader edited by Alice Bach (1999)
“Samson’s Women” (pp.61-93) in Fragmented Women: Feminist (Sub)versions of Biblical Narratives by J. Cheryl Exum (1993)