Reimagining Delilah s Afterlives as Femme Fatale

The story of Samson and Delilah in Judges 16 has been studied and retold over the centuries by biblical interpreters, artists, musicians, filmmakers and writers. Within these scholarly and cultural retellings, Delilah is frequently fashioned as the quintessential femme fatale - the shamelessly seductive ''fatal woman'' whose sexual treachery ultimately leads to Samson''s downfall. Yet these ubiqui...