Samson and Delilah Debunked

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OP - January 31, 2015, 08:30 AM

Part one of three:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRh7W-Bsg5g&list=UULhtZqdkjshgq8TqwIjMdCQ&index=4

Part two of three:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8758UW_RjM&index=3&list=UULhtZqdkjshgq8TqwIjMdCQ

Part three of three:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9Sjr2lnoLs&list=UULhtZqdkjshgq8TqwIjMdCQ&index=2

`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
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Reply #1 - January 31, 2015, 10:01 AM

Relevant to Delilah, the Bible hints she might have been mixed-race or a complete foreigner (not Danite nor Philistine). Steve Weitzman, "The Samson story as border fiction":
https://berlinarchaeology.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/weitzman-samson.pdf

The reason I said "Danite" and not "Israelite" is because "Herculean Samson" stands out among those pious Israelites like Kevin Sorbo at a Passover seder. Why's he kicking butt here, and not wrestling bears in Macedonia?

There's talk that the Dan tribe might have been Aegaean in the first place (like the Philistines), and that Samson's legend derives from the same pool of Aegaean myth that yielded Mopsos and Heracles elsewhere.
http://phoenicia.org/philistine.htm
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Reply #2 - January 31, 2015, 11:53 AM

Does this story really need debunking?

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Reply #3 - January 31, 2015, 11:58 AM

The vids are too good to not post.

The Sampsonator.

Sampson angry!!!

`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
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