Lion's Honey The Myth of Samson

<b>"One of contemporary literature’s most versatile and absorbing writers” (<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>) explores the myth of Samson, one of the most tempestuous, charismatic, and colourful characters in the Hebrew Bible. </b><br><i><br>“He is walking along with his parents, tears a lion limb from limb with his bare hands, and says nothing. Why is he silent?</i><br><br>With the gorgeous prose and knife’s-edge precision for which he is known, David Grossman discusses the myth of Samson—a story Grossman believes is, despite the chaos and glamour, the story of every lonely man.<br><br>There are few other Bible stories with so much drama and action, narrative fireworks and raw emotion, as we find in the tale of Samson: the battle with the lion; the three hundred burning foxes; the women he bedded and the one woman he loved; his betrayal by all the women in his life, from his mother to Delilah; and, in the end, his murderous suicide, when he brought the house down on himself and three thousand Philistines.