Tag: Jehudith
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16 Photographs, RELIGIOUS ART – Photography from the Bible by William Mortensen, Frantisek Drtikol, Clive Barda and Michal Baratz Koren, with footnotes, #3
Delilah is a woman in the Book of Judges, where she is the “woman in the valley of Sorek” whom Samson loved, and who was his downfall. Her figure, one of several dangerous temptresses in the Hebrew Bible, has become emblematic: “Samson loved Delilah, she betrayed him, and, what is worse, she did it for…