Abstract
Greenspoon examines the meaning behind the words "the jawbone of an ass" found in Judges 15:16. Psychoanalysts have had field day with Samson. With specific reference to the chosen expression, he has been diagnosed with "impulsive behavior--picking fights with passing Philistine armies, once using the jawbone of an ass singlehandedly to kill a thousand men after which he gloated over it, showing no remorse. Here, he opines that perhaps this psychoanalysis-at-a-great-distance should be characterized as cruelty to serious readers of the Biblical text, that is. He reveals that he takes no pleasure in finding errors of Biblical accounts by those who write for the popular press. Among other things, he mentions three different stories that all seemed to make the same mistake.