[Milton-L] Samson as suicide bomber

[Andy Frisk]

There's a great essay in MIlton Quarterly Vol. 42 No. 1 March 2008 titled "A Poem to the Unknown God: Samson Agonistes and Negative Theology" by Michael Bryson that addresses Samson in the context of the motivations for his actions and argues that his motivations are not of God and that Samson has much more in common with Satan, rather than The Son.  
 
My apologies if most of you are aware of this essay.  I found it to be very interesting and thought provoking as an examination of Samon.
 
Andy

--- On Thu, 5/7/09, jonnyangel <junkopardner at comcast.net> wrote:


From: jonnyangel <junkopardner at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Milton-L] Samson as suicide bomber
To: "John Milton Discussion List" <milton-l at lists.richmond.edu>
Date: Thursday, May 7, 2009, 11:43 PM


God**** the Samson as suicide bomber thing is getting old.

Really old, 

J 



On 5/7/09 11:13 AM, "srevard at siue.edu" <srevard at siue.edu> wrote:

> Miltonists might be interested in the article today on the front
> page of the Arts section of the NY TIMES, as it deals with
> the question of Samson as suicide bomber and reverses the
> cultural identifications, turning the biblical Jews into
> Palistinians and biblical Philistines into present-day Israelis.
> 
> Flanders Opera's production of Saint-Saens opera deals with
> a question Miltonists have been repeatedly considering: is
> Samson into a suicide bomber? The production does so by
> reversing the roles in the bible and thus making opera-goers
> confront the present political situation in the middle East.
> A fuller account of the production is found on the NY TIMES
> website for today in the Arts section.
> 
> As I noted in my article on musical treatments of Samson,
> Saint-Saens's opera has some interesting connections with
> Milton's poem, particularly on the political front.
> 
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