The story of Samson and Delilah makes no sense as history. As myth, the story makes sense as a form of entertainment for the people who told it and heard it. As history, though, it's dubious. That Delilah would expect Samson to be sympathetic to her clear desire for the Philistines to subdue him seems ludicrous. No woman would expect someone who she's already tried to trick into being captured, tortured, and killed to be understanding of her plight. "You've made a fool of me!" she cries after every failed attempt.
That sounds like myth to me. There's no way to relate to it as history because it's so alien to us that normal intelligent people, heroes especially, would act that way. It demeans the title to describe them as heroes or even especially faithful.
The point being that even the non-supernatural elements don't make sense in the Bible. The human interactions are baffling and don't resonate as things that might actually have happened.
That sounds like myth to me. There's no way to relate to it as history because it's so alien to us that normal intelligent people, heroes especially, would act that way. It demeans the title to describe them as heroes or even especially faithful.
The point being that even the non-supernatural elements don't make sense in the Bible. The human interactions are baffling and don't resonate as things that might actually have happened.
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