Has the Biblical Goliath Been Found?

IMRA ^ | November 10, 2005

[Lijahsbubbe]

If they unearth a skeletal hand with six fingers or a foot with six toes, I'd say they found Goliath.

That's just creepy....

[Jay Howard Smith]

BCE = Before the Christian Era CE = Christian Era

Good.....I was thingking CE=Christ's Era.....BCE=Before Christ's Era...!

[Thinkin' Gal]

I'll be more interesting if they find a giant's skull with a fractured forehead.

Kind of like a...

rift valley
n.

A deep fracture or break, about 25-50 km (15-30 miles) wide, in the earth's crust, creating an elongated valley bounded by two or more faults.

http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/r/r0242800.html

There's this rift map here:

Rotate the map 90 deg and zoom out:

Crown = Sinai
Hair = Israel, Lebanon
Jordan = head and long neck (cf. Anakim = "long necked", aka giants)
Iraq = body
Baghdad/Babylon = heart
Kuwait = foot
Syria = wing?

In the normal position, of course, this giant Sphinx is prostrating toward Mecca. Note the rock (Petra) in his forehead, near the fracture in the skull:

No wonder it's called the Red Sea. That gash had to have left a mess. `:-]

1 Samuel 17:48-51

48 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.
49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.
51 Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled.

I wonder how sharp the sword was...

Note also the latitude markings on the first map. The Sphinx in Giza is on the 30th parallel and faces east... toward its own lionine image marked on the ground... The eye, for example, is marked here at 30N 36E .

The 30th parallel cuts through Ras an Naqb, the "head (chief point, summit) of the pass". You can get a sense of word development by comparing Strong's Hebrew #7218 (rosh, head) and #5344 (naqab, pierce through).

http://www.blueletterbible.org/search.html#strongs

[Lancey Howard]

That's the work of the scumbags of political correctness and secular socialism (the Democrats). I'm not sure, but I bet you can look for it in all the government schools real soon if it's not already in place.

[Peelod]

Before Christ Existed

When was that????

[dsc]

"as they will now do in the EU"

Thereby spawning another acronym: FTEU.

[azhenfud]

2 Samuel Ch. 21:20
And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.

[Hegemony Cricket]

Ho, nully! Once I got done chuckling about what I read as hobbit horses, I read the rest of your post. Pretty interesting - I don't believe I had heard or thought of that angle before. Something to ponder...

[null and void]

Yeah. I expect we'll know soon enough.

[night reader]

What's with this 'BCE' and 'CE' dating crap?

'BCE' is "Before the Christian Era."
'CE' is the "Christian Era" or at least that's how I interpret it.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Thanks for the reference.

I remember when I first became aware of the six finger reference.

I was discussing this with friends and someone said that the six fingers were the reason that Native Americans held up their hands upon greeting, to check the digits.

Don't know that they really ever did that, or if the gesture was invented by TV, but I found it worth a "hmmm"....

[SunkenCiv]

Ethnic Groups in Philistia
Giving Goliath His Due: New Archaeological Light on the Philistines | Neal Bierling
Posted on 09/08/2004 10:41:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1210752/posts

[IncredibleHulk]

What's with this 'BCE' and 'CE' dating crap?

Not everyone is Christian.

[Maury]

I'm not European, but I use the metric system! ;)

I know, not the same thing, but similar. ;)

I see your point, but for the life of me there HAS to be some other scale for measuring SOMETHING that is related to some other religion that we all use as a standard.

is time the only one?

And don't take my pos the wrong way, I’m no religious zealot, I just can’t stand these attacks on things that have been the standard for years, but now people try to change them because they just make mention of a religion; be it Christianity or whatever.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

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