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The online version just recently fell offline, the owner has to ante up again.
Philistines: Giving Goliath His Due
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
The 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.]

21 posted on 08/06/2015 4:02:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)

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.

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?

23 posted on 08/06/2015 11:30:52 AM PDT by BlueDragon ("Another d-mn'd thick, square book! Always, scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr. Gibbon?")

25 posted on 08/06/2015 4:12:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)

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