Samson (English Wikipedia)

Kamal Qubaisi (29 July 2010). اكتشاف أثري ينسف حكاية تدمير "شمشون" لمعبد فلسطيني بساعديه – زلزال بقوة 8 درجات دك الهيكل قبل 2900 عام [An archaeological discovery debunks the story of Samson destroying a Palestinian temple with his own hands. An 8.0 magnitude earthquake destroyed the temple 2,900 years ago.]. العربية alarabiya.net (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 28 June 2025. منذ مئات السنين ونحن نتواتر حكاية "شمشون الجبار" وصديقته دليلة، وشهرته كخارق للقوة قام بتدمير معبد للفلسطينيين بيديه قبل 2900 عام في غزة القديمة، حيث وقف وصرخ "عليّ وعلى أعدائي يا رب" قبل دفعه لعمودين في الهيكل انهار بانهيارهما وتساقطت حجارته عليه وعلى من كان فيه من أعدائه الفلسطينيين، مسجلا بذلك أول عملية انتحارية في التاريخ. [For hundreds of years, we have been hearing the story of “Samson the Mighty” and his girlfriend Delilah, and his fame as a superhuman who destroyed a Philistine temple with his own hands 2,900 years ago in ancient Gaza, where he stood and cried “Against me and my enemies, O Lord!” before pushing two pillars in the temple, which collapsed and its stones fell on him and his Philistine enemies inside, thus marking the first suicide operation (عملية انتحارية) in history.]

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Dibo, Mohamed (3 September 2022). "عليّ وعلى أعدائي" عقيدة نظام عالمي جديد. The New Arab.

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Rogerson, John W. (1999). Chronicle of the Old Testament Kings: the Reign-By-Reign Record of the Rulers of Ancient Israel. London: Thames & Hudson. p. 59. ISBN 0500050953.
Rogerson, John W. (1999). Chronicle of the Old Testament Kings: The Reign-By-Reign Record of the Rulers of Ancient Israel. London: Thames & Hudson. p. 61. ISBN 0500050953.
Rogerson, John W. (1999). Chronicle of the Old Testament Kings: The Reign-By-Reign Record of the Rulers of Ancient Israel. London: Thames & Hudson. p. 62. ISBN 0500050953.
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Freedman, David Noel, ed. (2000). Eerdmans Dictionary of The Bible. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. p. 336 (entry for 'Delilah'). ISBN 0802824005.
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"Judges 16:27 Now the temple was full of men and women; all the lords of the Philistines were there, and about three thousand men and women were on the roof watching Samson entertain them". biblehub.com.

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Wiener, Noah (30 July 2012). "Lion Seal from Beth Shemesh Sparks Samson Discussion". Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS). Retrieved 25 April 2024.

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Alessandra, Rincón (7 August 2018). "Regina Spektor Gives Chilling Performance Of 'Samson' On 'Late Show': Watch". Billboard. Retrieved 4 January 2023.

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Van der Toorn, Karel; Pecking, Tom; van der Horst, Peter Willem (1999). Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans. p. 404. ISBN 978-0802824912.
Mobley, Gregory (2006). Samson and the Liminal Hero in the Ancient Near East. New York and London: T & T Clark. pp. 5–12. ISBN 978-0567028426.
Dyer, Charles; Merrill, Eugene (2003). Nelson's Old Testament Survey: Discovering the Essence, Background and Meaning About Every Old Testament Book. Thomas Nelson. p. 32. ISBN 978-1-4185-8736-9. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
Levinger, I. M.; Neuman, Kalman (2008). IsraGuide 2007/2008 (pb). Feldheim Publishers. p. 266. ISBN 978-1598261547.
Newsome, Carol Ann; Ringe, Sharon H.; Lapsley, Jacqueline E., eds. (2012) [1992]. Women's Bible Commentary (3rd ed.). Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press. p. 139. ISBN 978-0664237073.
Lynn G, S (2008). A Study of the Good the Bad and the Desperate Women in the Bible. Xulon Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-1606473917.
Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham (1858). "A Guide to Scripture History. The Old Testament". Trinity Hall, Cambridge. p. 190.
Wajdenbaum, P. (2014). Argonauts of the Desert: Structural Analysis of the Hebrew Bible. New York and London: Routledge. pp. 223–227. ISBN 978-1845539245.
Smith, Preserved (1930). A History of Modern Culture. Cambridge: University Press. p. 387. ISBN 978-1108074643. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
Teskey, Gordon (2006). Delirious Milton: The Fate of the Poet in Modernity. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 144. ISBN 978-0674010697.
Guillory, John (1986). "Dalila's House: Samson Agonistes and the Sexual Division of Labor". In Ferguson, Margaret; Quilligan, Maurren; Vickers, Nancy (eds.). Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226243146.
Leneman, Helen (2000). "Portrayals of Power in the Stories of Delilah and Bathsheba: Seduction in Song". In Aichele, George (ed.). Culture, Entertainment, and the Bible. Sheffield Academic Press. p. 153. ISBN 184127075X.
Wortman, Richard S. (2006). Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy: From Peter the Great to the Abdication of Nicholas II. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. pp. 25–26. ISBN 978-0691123745.
Katz, Samuel M. (9 February 2016). The Ghost Warriors: Inside Israel's Undercover War Against Suicide Terrorism. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-698-19393-2.
Omer-Sherman, Ranen (13 April 2015). Imagining the Kibbutz: Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film. Penn State Press. ISBN 978-0-271-07057-5.

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Margalith, Othniel (January 1987). "The Legends of Samson/Heracles". Vetus Testamentum. 37 (1–4): 63–70. doi:10.1163/156853387X00077.

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"What is Samson Option, Israel's nuclear threat that's no longer a theory? | World News - Business Standard". Archived from the original on 20 June 2025. Retrieved 11 August 2025.

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Rippin, Andrew (2008). "The Muslim Samson: Medieval, modern and scholarly interpretations". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 71 (2): 239–253. doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000529.

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"Israel's Nuclear Weapons Program and Lessons for Iran". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 25 June 2017.

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"Grateful Dead Family Discography: Samson and Delilah". Deaddisc.com. Retrieved 9 June 2026.

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Margalith, Othniel (January 1987). "The Legends of Samson/Heracles". Vetus Testamentum. 37 (1–4): 63–70. doi:10.1163/156853387X00077.
Gnuse, Robert (2 January 2018). "Samson and Heracles Revisited". Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament. 32 (1): 1–19. doi:10.1080/09018328.2017.1376519. ISSN 0901-8328.
Rippin, Andrew (2008). "The Muslim Samson: Medieval, modern and scholarly interpretations". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 71 (2): 239–253. doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000529.
Wicker, Brian (2003). "Samson Terroristes: A Theological Reflection on Suicidal Terrorism". New Blackfriars. 84 (983): 42–60. doi:10.1111/j.1741-2005.2003.tb06486.x. ISSN 0028-4289. JSTOR 43250680.
Takeda, Arata (2010). "Suicide bombers in Western literature: Demythologizing a mythic discourse". Contemporary Justice Review. 13 (4): 471. doi:10.1080/10282580.2010.517985. S2CID 54018791. Author: Arata Takeda [de] (Japanese: 武田新, romanized: Takeda Arata)

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"Altstipendiat der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit erhält Promotionspreis der Universität Tübingen" [Former scholarship holder of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom receives doctoral award from the University of Tübingen]. Friedrich Naumann Stiftung für die Freiheit (in German). 23 July 2009. Archived from the original on 16 January 2016.

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"103 Squadron - The Elephants". Globalsecurity.org. Archived from the original on 18 January 2009. Retrieved 14 December 2008.

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Pfoh, Emanuel; Niesiolowski-Spanò, Lukasz (14 November 2019). "A Gate in Gaza: An Essay of the Reception of Tall Tales" (PDF). Biblical Narratives, Archaeology and Historicity: Essays In Honour of Thomas L. Thompson. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 184–185. ISBN 978-0-567-68657-2. In antiquity, any Samson reader acquainted with fortified cities would know that city gates, not least because of their size, bulk and weight, were not transportable on the back of any one individual, however mighty. For such gates were neither graspable by one pair of arms nor easily balanced on a human back. This is certainly the reason why the rabbis, acquainted though they were with divine miracles, converted Samson into a giant, his shoulders spanning dozens of cubits.
Pfoh, Emanuel; Niesiolowski-Spanò, Lukasz (14 November 2019). Biblical Narratives, Archaeology and Historicity: Essays In Honour of Thomas L. Thompson. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 186. ISBN 978-0-567-68657-2. ...Samson is a 'comic hero', in literary exploration a character with a supersized ego, defiant, conflicted about authority, oscillating between hubris and humility, not always self-aware and certainly not servile to consistency but in full control of destiny.
Baker, Robin (11 July 2016). Hollow Men, Strange Women: Riddles, Codes and Otherness in the Book of Judges. BRILL. p. 48. ISBN 978-90-04-32267-7.
Gnuse, Robert Karl (30 September 2020). Hellenism and the Primary History: The Imprint of Greek Sources in Genesis - 2 Kings. Routledge. p. 142. ISBN 978-1-000-16492-3.

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"עוזרו של דיין בששת הימים על התוכנית לפיצוץ גרעיני: "כמובן שדיברנו על ניסוי" - מדיני ביטחוני". Haaretz.co.il. Retrieved 11 August 2025.

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Hasson, Nir (30 July 2012). "Seal found by Israeli archeologists may give substance to Samson legend". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 1 December 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2013.
Gilad, Elon (4 June 2014). "Intermarriage and the Jews: What Would the Early Israelites Say?". Haaretz. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
"שמשון היה השאהיד הראשון" שוב היהודים אשמים. העיתונות הערבית חשפה את ההשראה למחבלים המתאבדים: שמשון הגיבור היה המתאבד הראשון בהיסטוריה ["Samson was the first shahid"] (in Hebrew). Al-Ittihad (Emirati newspaper). 27 May 2007 – via Makor Rishon (with criticism). הכתבה, שפורסמה בעיתון "אל-אתחאד", היוצא לאור באיחוד האמירויות הערביות, תחת הכותרת "פיגועי ההתאבדות החלו ביהודים ולא הסתיימו בקמיקאזה", מתארת את פיגועי ההתאבדות לאורך ההיסטוריה, ומזכירה למשל את הטייסים היפנים ממלחמת העולם השנייה שצללו למותם כדי לפגוע באוניות אמריקניות, את ה"נמרים הטמילים" מסרי-לנקה, ואת המתאבדים הספרדים שפוצצו עצמם במהלך מלחמת האזרחים שפרצה במדינה בשנות ה-30 של המאה שעברה. [The article, published in the newspaper "Al-Ittihad", published in the United Arab Emirates, under the headline "Suicide attacks began with Jews and did not end with kamikazes", describes suicide attacks throughout history, and mentions, for example, the Japanese pilots from World War II who dived to their deaths to hit American ships, the "Tamil Tigers" from Sri Lanka, and the Spanish suicide bombers who blew themselves up during the civil war that broke out in the country in the 1930s.]
- Note: the Hebrew word used in the headline is "HaShahid" (הראשון lit: The Shahid). The modern Hebrew word is derived from the Arabic word "Shaheed" (شهيد), meaning martyr, but is not used to refer to Jewish martyrs. The loanword in Modern Hebrew has connotations of suicide terrorism. Source: "Explained: What 'Shahid' or 'Martyr' means…". Haaretz.
- Sheleg, Yair (7 April 2007). "The Good Jailer". Haaretz. Retrieved 24 July 2008. — Archive: "The good jailer". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 26 March 2009.
- Sheleg, Yair. "The Good Jailer - Haaretz Com - Haaretz.com". Haaretz.com. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
- Haaretz: Hebrew and English

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"عليّ وعلى أعدائي يا رب". Hammurabinewsagency.com. 18 February 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2025.

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- "מרכבות גדעון | ערוץ 7". Archived from the original on 3 July 2025. Retrieved 26 July 2025.

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"Apakah Kisah Samson Kisah Benar atau Dusta?" [Is the Story of Samson a True Story or a Lie?]. kisahmuslim.com (in Indonesian). 2023. Retrieved 27 August 2024. translation from: Muhammad Al-Munajjid (2023). "هل قصة شمسون صحيحة؟" [Is the story of Shamson true?]. Islamqa.info (in Arabic). Retrieved 27 August 2024. Quote from: al-Tabari (1965). تاريخ الطبري = تاريخ الرسل والملوك [History of al-Tabari = History of the Messengers and Kings part 2] (in Arabic). Beirut, Lebanon: دار التراث. p. 22. Retrieved 27 August 2024. Quoting ʻArīb ibn Saʻd al-Qurtubi

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"Samson and Delilah not mentioned in Quran and Sunnah". islamweb.net. 2017. Retrieved 4 August 2024.

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קללת עזה: מהתנ"ך ועד היום - דברי ימי הרצועה. www.israelhayom.co.il. ישראל היום. 6 July 2025.

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Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Samson". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.

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"The writing on the wall". The Jerusalem Post. 19 April 2007. Archived from the original on 16 October 2021. They received a note from underground members about a plan to take their own lives while killing some British policemen during the moments preceding the hanging. It was termed "Operation Shimshon" after the biblical Samson who brought down with him the crowded Philistine temple, claiming "let me die with the Philistines [he]". Barazani and Feinstein were eager to carry out the plan.

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Wicker, Brian (2003). "Samson Terroristes: A Theological Reflection on Suicidal Terrorism". New Blackfriars. 84 (983): 42–60. doi:10.1111/j.1741-2005.2003.tb06486.x. ISSN 0028-4289. JSTOR 43250680.
Atiya, A. S. (1973). "Review of Christian Egypt: Faith and Life". Middle East Journal. 27 (2): 231–232. ISSN 0026-3141. JSTOR 4325068.
Drury, Shadia (2003). "Terrorism: From Samson to Atta". Arab Studies Quarterly. 25 (1/2): 1–12. ISSN 0271-3519. JSTOR 41858434.

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"Apakah Kisah Samson Kisah Benar atau Dusta?" [Is the Story of Samson a True Story or a Lie?]. kisahmuslim.com (in Indonesian). 2023. Retrieved 27 August 2024. translation from: Muhammad Al-Munajjid (2023). "هل قصة شمسون صحيحة؟" [Is the story of Shamson true?]. Islamqa.info (in Arabic). Retrieved 27 August 2024. Quote from: al-Tabari (1965). تاريخ الطبري = تاريخ الرسل والملوك [History of al-Tabari = History of the Messengers and Kings part 2] (in Arabic). Beirut, Lebanon: دار التراث. p. 22. Retrieved 27 August 2024. Quoting ʻArīb ibn Saʻd al-Qurtubi

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"Apakah Kisah Samson Kisah Benar atau Dusta?" [Is the Story of Samson a True Story or a Lie?]. kisahmuslim.com (in Indonesian). 2023. Retrieved 27 August 2024. translation from: Muhammad Al-Munajjid (2023). "هل قصة شمسون صحيحة؟" [Is the story of Shamson true?]. Islamqa.info (in Arabic). Retrieved 27 August 2024. Quote from: al-Tabari (1965). تاريخ الطبري = تاريخ الرسل والملوك [History of al-Tabari = History of the Messengers and Kings part 2] (in Arabic). Beirut, Lebanon: دار التراث. p. 22. Retrieved 27 August 2024. Quoting ʻArīb ibn Saʻd al-Qurtubi

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Ammi Nur Baits (2015). "Benarkah Samson itu Nabi?". konsultasisyariah.com (in Indonesian). Yufid Network. Retrieved 4 August 2024.

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"Raskin, Fania – Freedom Fighters of Israel Heritage Association". Archived from the original on 7 July 2022. Fania then spoke up and volunteered herself. She was sure that for an operation such as this, she would find the strength to stand and walk. "My life is no life anyway" she added. This was a "Let my soul die with the Philistines [he]" proposal, the Samson option. Of course, her suggestion was rejected. Fania Raskin passed away on 20 July 1947, in Jerusalem. She was thirty-one.
רסקין פַניה – "מרגלית" – העמותה להנצחת מורשת לח״י (in Hebrew). הנצחה באנדרטה ביער לח"י במשמר איילון … שמה של פניה רסקין חרוט על לוח באנדרטה ביער לח"י [Commemoration at the monument in the Lehi Forest in Mishmar Ayalon … Fania Raskin's name is engraved on a plaque at the Lehi Forest memorial.] – Description: In the close up image, her name is the last on the list, with her Hebrew alias in brackets Hebrew: פניה רסקין (מרגלית), romanized: Fania Raskin (Margalit).
128 Lehi Martyrs
- חללי לח"י – העמותה להנצחת מורשת לח״י (in Hebrew).
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- Lehi People לח"י אנשים (PDF) (in Hebrew). Vol. 2. Tel Aviv. 2002. p. 800. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 December 2024. Retrieved 21 December 2024. כאשר תוכננה התנקשות בגנרל בארקר, מפקד הצבא הבריטי בארץ־ישראל, הועלה רעיון, שבחורה תטייל עם עגלת תינוק, שתתפוצץ כאשר הגנרל יעבור לידה. נשאלה השאלה איך הבחורה תצליח להסתלק לפני ההתפוצצות. כאן התפרצה פניה והציעה את עצמה. בשביל פעולה כזאת, אמרה, היא תמצא כוחות לעמוד וללכת. ״ממילא חיי אינם חיים״, הוסיפה היא התכוונה לפעולת ״תמות נפשי עם פלשתים״. הצעתה נדחתה, כמובן. פניה רסקין הלכה לעולמה ב־-20.7.1947ג׳ מנחם אב תש״ז, בירושלים והיא בת 31{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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"Israel Receives First C-130J Super Hercules: 'Shimshon'". Media (News Releases). Lockheed Martin. Retrieved 9 July 2025.

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"Samson:Emblem of Lungau". lungau.at. Saliburger Lungau. Archived from the original on 6 April 2020. Retrieved 28 October 2017.

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"שמשון היה השאהיד הראשון" שוב היהודים אשמים. העיתונות הערבית חשפה את ההשראה למחבלים המתאבדים: שמשון הגיבור היה המתאבד הראשון בהיסטוריה ["Samson was the first shahid"] (in Hebrew). Al-Ittihad (Emirati newspaper). 27 May 2007 – via Makor Rishon (with criticism). הכתבה, שפורסמה בעיתון "אל-אתחאד", היוצא לאור באיחוד האמירויות הערביות, תחת הכותרת "פיגועי ההתאבדות החלו ביהודים ולא הסתיימו בקמיקאזה", מתארת את פיגועי ההתאבדות לאורך ההיסטוריה, ומזכירה למשל את הטייסים היפנים ממלחמת העולם השנייה שצללו למותם כדי לפגוע באוניות אמריקניות, את ה"נמרים הטמילים" מסרי-לנקה, ואת המתאבדים הספרדים שפוצצו עצמם במהלך מלחמת האזרחים שפרצה במדינה בשנות ה-30 של המאה שעברה. [The article, published in the newspaper "Al-Ittihad", published in the United Arab Emirates, under the headline "Suicide attacks began with Jews and did not end with kamikazes", describes suicide attacks throughout history, and mentions, for example, the Japanese pilots from World War II who dived to their deaths to hit American ships, the "Tamil Tigers" from Sri Lanka, and the Spanish suicide bombers who blew themselves up during the civil war that broke out in the country in the 1930s.]
- Note: the Hebrew word used in the headline is "HaShahid" (הראשון lit: The Shahid). The modern Hebrew word is derived from the Arabic word "Shaheed" (شهيد), meaning martyr, but is not used to refer to Jewish martyrs. The loanword in Modern Hebrew has connotations of suicide terrorism. Source: "Explained: What 'Shahid' or 'Martyr' means…". Haaretz.
- כל הדרך לגרדום: ימיו האחרונים של מאיר פיינשטיין. Makor Rishon (in Hebrew). 27 July 2017. מאיר פיינשטיין נולד וגדל בירושלים. אם שואלים את אתר הזיכרון הרשמי של חללי צה"ל או את ויקיפדיה, תאריך הלידה שלו הוא 5 באוקטובר 1927. לדברי אחיינו, המועד הנכון הוא יולי 1929.

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Walid Fikr (2018). "شمشون الجبار: ثلاث روايات لبطل واحد" [Samson the Mighty: Three Stories of One Hero]. manshoor.com (in Arabic). Retrieved 27 August 2024.
"شمشون الجبار: ثلاث روايات لبطل واحد | منشور". manshoor.com. 25 February 2018. Retrieved 26 July 2025.

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From Judges 16:30 – Usually translated as 'Let me die with the Philistines' – "Judges 16: Hebrew - English Bible - Mechon-Mamre". mechon-mamre.org. English: 30 And Samson said: 'Let me die with the Philistines'. And he bent with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead that he slew at his death were more than they that he slew in his life. Hebrew: ל וַיֹּאמֶר שִׁמְשׁוֹן, תָּמוֹת נַפְשִׁי עִם-פְּלִשְׁתִּים, וַיֵּט בְּכֹחַ, וַיִּפֹּל הַבַּיִת עַל-הַסְּרָנִים וְעַל-כָּל-הָעָם אֲשֶׁר-בּוֹ; וַיִּהְיוּ הַמֵּתִים, אֲשֶׁר הֵמִית בְּמוֹתוֹ, רַבִּים, מֵאֲשֶׁר הֵמִית בְּחַיָּיו.

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"Did Samson Commit Suicide?". www.mycufamily.org. 12 April 2023. But the question remains: Did Samson commit suicide or was it an act of self-sacrifice? There Are Four Reasons Why Samson Did Not Commit Suicide…

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"HANGMAN DEFEATED BY CONDEMNED MEN IN PALESTINE". Grey River Argus. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 23 April 1947. p. 5. The Jewish terrorists Feinstein and Barazini were to have been executed at dawn to-day. However, they blew themselves to pieces shortly before midnight. The two men occupied the same cell. They were visited by Rabbi Jacob Goldman [he], Jewish chaplain to prisons, and he administered to them the last rites. Tile men committed suicide shortly after he left. Rabbi Goldman was immediately taken to the police headquarters. Feinstein and Barazini are reported to have inscribed the Biblical words, "Mene! Mene! Tekel Upharsin!" on the walls of their ceil before killing themselves with hand grenades. The words quoted are those mentioned in the Book of Daniel, chapter five, verse twenty-five.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

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"SUICIDE OF TWO CONDEMNED JEW TERRORISTS". Daily Mercury. trove.nla.gov.au. 23 April 1947. Archived from the original on 29 December 2024. the two Jewish condemned terrorists, Meyer Feinstein and Moshe Barazani, who were to have been executed before dawn to-day, committed suicide in Jerusalem central prison to-night by blowing themselves to pieces … The British United Press representative states that Feinstein and Barazani are reported to have in scribed the Biblical words, "Mene, Mene, Tekel Uphaisin" on the walls of their cells before killing themselves. The words quoted are mentioned In the Book of Daniel, chapter 5, verse 25.

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Klein 2022: Hebrew: תמות נפשי עם פלשתים — ברזני ופינשטיין עירקי ואשכנזי ישבו ביחד בתא הנידונים למוות וחיכו בשלווה ליום מותם. איש לח"י אליעזר בן עמי העלה את רעיון שמשון תמות נפשי עם בריטים. והכין לשניים תפוז נפץ כדי שביום התלייה גם התליינים יתפוצצו., lit. 'My soul will die with the Philistines — Barzani and Feinstein, Iraqi and Ashkenazi, sat together in the death row cell and calmly awaited the day of their death. A Lehi member, Eliezer Ben-Ami [he], came up with the idea of Samson dying with the British, and he prepared an explosive orange for the two of them so that on the day of the hanging, the executioners would also explode.' Klein, Yair (3 May 2022). היום בהיסטוריה: פיינשטיין וברזני מקדימים את התליין [Today in History: Feinstein and Barzani outrun the executioner]. srugim.co.il (in Hebrew). Israel. Archived from the original on 30 June 2025.

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"Samsontragen im Lungau und Bezirk Murau". Immaterielles Kulturerbe in Österreich (in German). Archived from the original on 22 December 2015.

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Pfoh, Emanuel; Niesiolowski-Spanò, Lukasz (14 November 2019). "A Gate in Gaza: An Essay of the Reception of Tall Tales" (PDF). Biblical Narratives, Archaeology and Historicity: Essays In Honour of Thomas L. Thompson. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 184–185. ISBN 978-0-567-68657-2. In antiquity, any Samson reader acquainted with fortified cities would know that city gates, not least because of their size, bulk and weight, were not transportable on the back of any one individual, however mighty. For such gates were neither graspable by one pair of arms nor easily balanced on a human back. This is certainly the reason why the rabbis, acquainted though they were with divine miracles, converted Samson into a giant, his shoulders spanning dozens of cubits.

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Hasson, Nir (30 July 2012). "Seal found by Israeli archeologists may give substance to Samson legend". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 1 December 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2013.
Kamal Qubaisi (29 July 2010). اكتشاف أثري ينسف حكاية تدمير "شمشون" لمعبد فلسطيني بساعديه – زلزال بقوة 8 درجات دك الهيكل قبل 2900 عام [An archaeological discovery debunks the story of Samson destroying a Palestinian temple with his own hands. An 8.0 magnitude earthquake destroyed the temple 2,900 years ago.]. العربية alarabiya.net (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 28 June 2025. منذ مئات السنين ونحن نتواتر حكاية "شمشون الجبار" وصديقته دليلة، وشهرته كخارق للقوة قام بتدمير معبد للفلسطينيين بيديه قبل 2900 عام في غزة القديمة، حيث وقف وصرخ "عليّ وعلى أعدائي يا رب" قبل دفعه لعمودين في الهيكل انهار بانهيارهما وتساقطت حجارته عليه وعلى من كان فيه من أعدائه الفلسطينيين، مسجلا بذلك أول عملية انتحارية في التاريخ. [For hundreds of years, we have been hearing the story of “Samson the Mighty” and his girlfriend Delilah, and his fame as a superhuman who destroyed a Philistine temple with his own hands 2,900 years ago in ancient Gaza, where he stood and cried “Against me and my enemies, O Lord!” before pushing two pillars in the temple, which collapsed and its stones fell on him and his Philistine enemies inside, thus marking the first suicide operation (عملية انتحارية) in history.]
"Altstipendiat der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit erhält Promotionspreis der Universität Tübingen" [Former scholarship holder of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom receives doctoral award from the University of Tübingen]. Friedrich Naumann Stiftung für die Freiheit (in German). 23 July 2009. Archived from the original on 16 January 2016.
"Samson:Emblem of Lungau". lungau.at. Saliburger Lungau. Archived from the original on 6 April 2020. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
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Sheleg, Yair (7 April 2007). "The Good Jailer". Haaretz. Retrieved 24 July 2008. — Archive: "The good jailer". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 26 March 2009.
"Raskin, Fania – Freedom Fighters of Israel Heritage Association". Archived from the original on 7 July 2022. Fania then spoke up and volunteered herself. She was sure that for an operation such as this, she would find the strength to stand and walk. "My life is no life anyway" she added. This was a "Let my soul die with the Philistines [he]" proposal, the Samson option. Of course, her suggestion was rejected. Fania Raskin passed away on 20 July 1947, in Jerusalem. She was thirty-one.
Lehi People לח"י אנשים (PDF) (in Hebrew). Vol. 2. Tel Aviv. 2002. p. 800. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 December 2024. Retrieved 21 December 2024. כאשר תוכננה התנקשות בגנרל בארקר, מפקד הצבא הבריטי בארץ־ישראל, הועלה רעיון, שבחורה תטייל עם עגלת תינוק, שתתפוצץ כאשר הגנרל יעבור לידה. נשאלה השאלה איך הבחורה תצליח להסתלק לפני ההתפוצצות. כאן התפרצה פניה והציעה את עצמה. בשביל פעולה כזאת, אמרה, היא תמצא כוחות לעמוד וללכת. ״ממילא חיי אינם חיים״, הוסיפה היא התכוונה לפעולת ״תמות נפשי עם פלשתים״. הצעתה נדחתה, כמובן. פניה רסקין הלכה לעולמה ב־-20.7.1947ג׳ מנחם אב תש״ז, בירושלים והיא בת 31{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
"What is Samson Option, Israel's nuclear threat that's no longer a theory? | World News - Business Standard". Archived from the original on 20 June 2025. Retrieved 11 August 2025.
Rejected name for Operation Gideon's Chariots:
- "מרכבות גדעון | ערוץ 7". Archived from the original on 3 July 2025. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
- Klein 2022: Hebrew: תמות נפשי עם פלשתים — ברזני ופינשטיין עירקי ואשכנזי ישבו ביחד בתא הנידונים למוות וחיכו בשלווה ליום מותם. איש לח"י אליעזר בן עמי העלה את רעיון שמשון תמות נפשי עם בריטים. והכין לשניים תפוז נפץ כדי שביום התלייה גם התליינים יתפוצצו., lit. 'My soul will die with the Philistines — Barzani and Feinstein, Iraqi and Ashkenazi, sat together in the death row cell and calmly awaited the day of their death. A Lehi member, Eliezer Ben-Ami [he], came up with the idea of Samson dying with the British, and he prepared an explosive orange for the two of them so that on the day of the hanging, the executioners would also explode.' Klein, Yair (3 May 2022). היום בהיסטוריה: פיינשטיין וברזני מקדימים את התליין [Today in History: Feinstein and Barzani outrun the executioner]. srugim.co.il (in Hebrew). Israel. Archived from the original on 30 June 2025.
- "SUICIDE OF TWO CONDEMNED JEW TERRORISTS". Daily Mercury. trove.nla.gov.au. 23 April 1947. Archived from the original on 29 December 2024. the two Jewish condemned terrorists, Meyer Feinstein and Moshe Barazani, who were to have been executed before dawn to-day, committed suicide in Jerusalem central prison to-night by blowing themselves to pieces … The British United Press representative states that Feinstein and Barazani are reported to have in scribed the Biblical words, "Mene, Mene, Tekel Uphaisin" on the walls of their cells before killing themselves. The words quoted are mentioned In the Book of Daniel, chapter 5, verse 25.
- "The writing on the wall". The Jerusalem Post. 19 April 2007. Archived from the original on 16 October 2021. They received a note from underground members about a plan to take their own lives while killing some British policemen during the moments preceding the hanging. It was termed "Operation Shimshon" after the biblical Samson who brought down with him the crowded Philistine temple, claiming "let me die with the Philistines [he]". Barazani and Feinstein were eager to carry out the plan.
- "103 Squadron - The Elephants". Globalsecurity.org. Archived from the original on 18 January 2009. Retrieved 14 December 2008.

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Gnuse, Robert (2 January 2018). "Samson and Heracles Revisited". Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament. 32 (1): 1–19. doi:10.1080/09018328.2017.1376519. ISSN 0901-8328.
Ben-Yosef, Sefi [in Hebrew]. "Sar'ah". In Sefi Ben-Yosef (ed.). Israel Guide – Judaea (A useful encyclopedia for the knowledge of the country) (in Hebrew). Vol. 9. Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House, in affiliation with the Israel Ministry of Defence. p. 306. OCLC 745203905.
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