Samson's Riddle

Some scholars have argued that the original riddle was twisted, contorted or altogether replaced by the seeming non sequeter. One way the riddle could be fair comes to us from james l crenshaw, ssor of the old testament at duke university. He has argued that the riddle is not actually about the lion and the honey at all but a veiled allusion to the sex act. We're going to talk about sperm a lot and this episode. Hope you're ready for that. Oh, hive. I danced around this inough. What? Ok, i'm sorry. Let's get down to it.

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