7/20/2023 0 Comments Deuteronomic redactor![]() When he meets a woman (Delilah) who doesn’t fit in his phallogocentric ideology, he reveals his secret through a non-genital erotic play (BDSM) with her and loses his strength when she symbolically castrates him by cutting his hair. The Authorship of Deuteronomy 34: Moses or a Redactor William D. Second, exilic/early post-exilic redactors tried to link Joshua with Deuteronomy (still an independent composition) and to support the authority of the. Samson’s hypermasculinity is a covering for his queer identity and results in his construction of several interrelated dualisms (Israel/Philistines, male/female, strong/weak, etc.) and in his excessive use of violence (physical, sexual, rhetorical, symbolic) against both women and men. Reading the Samson narrative from a queer perspective, this article shows how Samson’s ‘heterosexuality’ is produced, appears, and dissolves back into queerness. now narrate both the end of Davids reign and the rise of Solomon (see I. ![]() These post-Deuteronomic narratives preserve older material, but with several traces of revision, so that I Kings i. The History of Israel during the period C. ix.-xx., &c, had previously been omitted by the Deuteronomic redactor himself (Budde) cannot be proved. He had considered his hairstyle a sign of his hypermasculine identity instead of a demarcation of his Naziriteship. The History and Religion of the Period: A. Most commentators, however, have overlooked the fact that it is Samson himself who constructs a connection between his hair and his strength. Redaction criticism regards the author of. Samson is well known for his long hair and exceptional strength. Redaction criticism, also called Redaktiongeschichte, Kompositionsgeschichteor Redaktionstheologie, is a critical method for the study of biblical texts.
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