‘Revenge for My Two Eyes’: Talion and Mimesis in the Samson Narrative .
The Samson narrative is notable for its cycles of violence and revenge. Sometimes this has been understood to be an expression of lex talionis (‘an eye for an eye’); indeed, Samson appears to assert as much, though his actions do not match up to the ideal. This paper argues that while the narrator p...
| Publicado en: | Biblical Interpretation Vol. 26; no. 2; pp. 133 - 158 |
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