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Samson: A Calling Wasted

by D. Michael Gross

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  • Publisher: Dustin Gross
  • 14 x 21.6 x 0.9 cm

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Samson: A Calling Wasted is not your grandmother's Bible story. In this visceral, brutally honest reimagining, D. Michael Gross rips the myth from its Sunday school wrappings and lays bare the psychological wreckage behind the legend.

Set in the mud-soaked trenches of ancient Israel-a nation paralyzed by fear, cynicism, and spiritual sclerosis-this book drags the reader through every gut punch of a life marked by promise and haunted by self-destruction. Samson is born to a barren mother, consecrated by a Nazarite vow, and crowned by prophecy before he can speak his first word. The weight of expectation isn't a blessing-it's a slow poison.

Gross's Samson isn't a sanitized hero. He's a walking contradiction: animal-strong, emotionally feral, cursed by appetites he can't control and a calling he never chose. The story smolders with raw conflict-parents torn between love and fear, a nation desperate for rescue but unwilling to change, and a God who is often felt as absence rather than comfort. Every relationship-parent, lover, enemy, self-is drawn with relentless realism, sometimes brutal, sometimes heartbreakingly human.

This is literary-biographical fiction at its sharpest. Every chapter unspools in indented, immersive long-paragraph style, written for readers who demand truth over polish and story over sentiment. You won't find clich

  • Title

    Samson: A Calling Wasted

  • Publisher

    Dustin Gross

  • Published

    October 2025

  • Weight

    182g

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 0.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9798232391133

  • ISBN-10

    8232391138

  • Eden Code

    7360083

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