Philistine Temple Ruins Uncovered in Goliath's Hometown

Arutz Sheva ( Israel National News) ^ | 07/30/2010 | Hana Levi Julian

[Verginius Rufus]

Tell it not in Gath.

(2 Samuel 1.20)

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alas:

Archaeologists Uncover Goliath’s Hometown
inn | 7/14/10 | Maayana Miskin
Posted on 07/14/2010 6:05:30 PM PDT by Nachum
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2552762/posts

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Y'know, July just flew by this year. Did you notice that too?

Anti-social Samson
by Alison Motluk
February 14, 2001

Eric Altschuler from the University of California at San Diego and his colleagues say that Samson showed signs of no fewer than six of the seven behaviours associated with antisocial personality disorder. Samson routinely got into fights, and once killed 1000 Philistines single-handedly and then gloated over it, showing no remorse. He also showed a reckless disregard for his own safety when he told Delilah, a woman who'd tried to kill him three times before, the secret of his strength. The researchers note that Samson also burned Philistine fields, which showed both his impulsivity and his inability to conform to social norms. He was deceitful, not telling his parents, for instance, that he got honey from the carcass of a lion. And like many people with ASPD, Samson behaved badly as a child: setting things on fire, torturing animals, stealing, and bullying other children. A whole chapter is devoted to Samson's mother being warned by angels not to drink while she's pregnant.

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Samson routinely got into fights, and once killed 1000 Philistines single-handedly and then gloated over it, showing no remorse.

They were Philistines, of course, he showed no remorse.

He also showed a reckless disregard for his own safety when he told Delilah, a woman who'd tried to kill him three times before, the secret of his strength.

Tell me how many guys have not seriously endangered themselves trying to impress some trim or to mollify their wives to turn them aside from a long, whining, nagging funk (Delilah was a well-known nag).

The researchers note that Samson also burned Philistine fields, which showed both his impulsivity and his inability to conform to social norms.

Again, although he married a Philistine chick, the Philistine social norms were those of a society that was oppressing Israel. As an Israelite, Samson was entirely right to fail to conform to the social norms of the oppressor.

He was deceitful, not telling his parents, for instance, that he got honey from the carcass of a lion.

He was conscientious and didn't want to gross them out and cause them to worry about him, as a Nazerite, touching a dead body.

Samson behaved badly as a child: setting things on fire, torturing animals, stealing, and bullying other children.

We could say that he was practicing for his life's work, but the Bible is silent on his childhood up to the time of marriage except to say that he was blessed by the Lord. Alison Motluk is pulling childhood anecdotes about Samson out of his/her butt.

A whole chapter is devoted to Samson's mother being warned by angels not to drink while she's pregnant.

No, it isn't. And she didn't.

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Oh, yeah. July slipped away. I’ve got to do some work this weekend to be ready for August. :-))