If you take the Old Testament literally, strongman Samson has a body count of at least 4040 men (and one lion) to his name. His biography — full of sex, lies, and disastrous haircuts — is a ...

ARCHAEOLOGICAL discoveries in the Middle East could once and for all prove the Old Testament was right about the biblical strongman Samson, a Bible expert has astonishingly claimed.

The deeply flawed Old Testament “hero” was set apart for a very specific purpose.

“Samson, my good man, I have one word for you: celibacy.” That was the first thought that came to mind when watching the movie Samson, an adaptation from the Old Testament Book of Judges. The ...

The flawed hero Samson is invoked in slave uprisings, the abolitionist movement, the struggle for labor reform, the civil rights era, and poetry and literature written by Black women.

This is one of the most famous stories of the Old Testament. Samson, who judged Israel for 20 years (Judges 16:31), lived in the first half of the 11th century B.C.

Samson, we realize, was not a suicide bomber but a suicide crusher: “So the dead he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.” More Old Testament humor.

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And he loves the stories about Old Testament icons such as Moses and Joseph -- "enthralling people you read about and become fascinated with, because they're so complicated.