[BGHater]

[BGHater]

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[Vinnie]

"What we are learning from their art, from their decorated... style of pottery, iron working, they were a technologically sophisticated culture and artistic and cosmopolitan culture," she said.

"So to be a Philistine is not really to be uncouth. To be a Philistine is to be cultured and civilised."

There you have it!

They were metro-sexuals.

David killed a wuss. /s

[Sherman Logan]

In recent years it has yielded a rich deposit of evidence that proves the Philistines lived there from prehistoric times and fought with the Israelites.

Wildly inaccurate. The Philistines probably settled sometime during the 1100s BC, several thousand years after writing began.

[Sherman Logan]

"What we are learning from their art, from their decorated... style of pottery, iron working, they were a technologically sophisticated culture and artistic and cosmopolitan culture," she said.

She makes it sound like this is a new concept. The Bible account makes it very clear the Philistines were more technologically advanced than the Israelites.

[refreshed]

It is no myth.

[Richard Kimball]

I don't know which is worse, the writer of the article or the so called archaeologists.

[Jan_Sobieski]

It is funny how these "modern" archaeologists and historians cannot give one shred of credibility to the Bible yet if they find some Sumerian or Babylonian fable they treat it like fact.

The Philistines were the genetic relatives of the Egyptians (from Ham) that lived on the Island of Crete. They adopted much of the Greek culture and then suddenly left the Island of Crete and invaded Egypt around the 1900 - 1700BC. Egyptian historians record how the Philistines were defeated and driven to Canaan. Remained a power in Canaan for a long time. The Romans knew of their historic conflict with Israel and after the Bar-Kokhba rebellion renamed Israel to "Syria Palaestina" after Israel's ancient enemy.

History confirms that pottery fragments found in ancient Philistine controlled areas of Israel matches that of fragments found on Crete.

[calex59]

There have always been cases of giantism in the world(may not have spelled that correctly)so what is so preposterous about a 9.8 foot giant in biblical times? In the 1930s there was a famous giant who grew to about 11 feet, or maybe taller I can't remember exactly, and what about that one French actor who was extremely huge and tall.

People inflicted with this disease, and it is a disease, grow rapidly and die young but there could easily have been a giant named Goliath, David could have defeated due to his superior fighting ability.

It is entirely possible that Goliath never had to actually fight before, his very size would have scared the carp out of most opponents.

Just some rambling thoughts on the subject by a guy who has lots of trivia stored away in his brain!

[DallasMike]

“In another place it says that another guy by the name of Elhanan killed Goliath, so perhaps there was a battle between Goliath and someone else and at some stage David, as a king, took credit for it.”

I don’t suppose there could have been two people named Goliath. It’s not like I’ve never met anyone else named Mike.

[SunkenCiv]

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[onedoug]

One doesn’t have to believe in God or that any of this is real.
But to act as in this belief will likely yield one a better and more productive life.

[chesley]

I’ve always wondered if there weren’t two different men named Goliath. I mean, how many “Bill Smiths” are there? I once worked at a place where there were 5, two of them were cousins.

Heck, both my son and my nephew are named “Christopher”.