Posted on 08/04/2015 6:12:36 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Archaeologists at Israel's Bar-Ilan University announced on Monday the discovery of a massive gate and other fortifications in the ruins of Gath, the hometown of the Bible's Goliath. The ancient gate is one of the largest ever discovered in Israel and evidence of the Philistine city's power in the 10th and ninth centuries B.C.E, head archaeologist Professor Aren Maeir says. It even made a brief appearance in the Bible when David, Goliath's slayer and future king of Israel, "acted like a madman, making marks on the doors of the gate and letting saliva run down his beard."
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The online version just recently fell offline, the owner has to ante up again.Philistines: Giving Goliath His DueThe name Goliath, like Achish, is not Semitic, but rather Anatolian (McCarter 1980, 291, Mitchell 1967, 415; Wainwright 1959, 79). Not all agree though; the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (2:524) proposes that Goliath may have been a remnant of one of the aboriginal groups of giants of Palestine who now were in the employ of the Philistines. [1. Naveh (1985, 9, 13 n. 14) states that Ikausu, the name of the king of Ekron in the seventh century b.c., is a non-Semitic name that can be associated with that of the Achish of Gath in David's time. The name in the seventh century has a shin ending that is non-West Semitic.]
Marco Polo Monographs, No. 7.
by Neal Bierling
foreword by Joe E. Seger
old edition on Amazon
Giving Goliath His Due:
New Archaeological Light on the Philistines
by Neal Bierling
foreword by Paul L. Maier
Keep lookin’ and they might find a ginormous privy.
That's interesting.
Thank you for the links also.
Now if they ever find a giant human skeleton -- without a head, that would be something, eh?
Og
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Og
THE BED OF OG - Jewish Bible Quarterly
https://jbq.jewishbible.org/assets/Uploads/401/jbq_401_og.pdf
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