The Oratorio Society of New York, famous for its holiday 'Messiah' tradition, gave its first performance of Handel's 'Samson' since 1948.
8 months ago

The biblical story of Samson (Judges 13–16) and its reception provide context for the war in Gaza and Israel. In Israeli culture, Samson...
11 months ago

Watching the debacle of the war between Israel and Hamas, I was suddenly reminded of a memorable phrase from John Milton's dramatic poem,...
14 months ago

John Milton, celebrated 17th century English poet, has provided for us in his Samson Agonistes a metaphorical dramatisation of the full...
1 month ago

Eyeless in Gaza: How the US blinded Israeli intelligence gathering efforts on Hamas and other Palestinian groups inside Lebanon.
15 months ago

The distance between the work of academia and the society that work is intended to improve is something scholars themselves often lament,...
41 months ago

In the first book of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh, the heroine remembers her childhood. Orphaned in Italy and educated by her...
72 months ago

Brad Miner reviews "Samson," a new Biblical "epic," which is a fairly harmless way to while away an hour-plus.
83 months ago

Karen Clausen-Brown, associate professor of English, has been selected to receive the James Holly Hanford Article Award from the Milton...
54 months ago

Samson cried out to God for strength to execute his final revenge: “Let my soul perish with the Philistines!” Then he pushed with all his might, and down came...
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