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Finding Goliath? Archaeologists Uncover Details About the Bible‘s ’Bad Guy’ Philistines

Finding Goliath? Archaeologists Uncover Details About the Bibles Bad Guy Philistines

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TEL EL-SAFI, Israel (The Blaze/AP) — At the remains of an ancient metropolis in southern Israel, archaeologists are piecing together the history of a people remembered chiefly as the bad guys of the Hebrew Bible.

The city of Gath, where the annual digging season began this week, is helping scholars paint a more nuanced portrait of the Philistines, who appear in the biblical story as the perennial enemies of the Israelites.

Finding Goliath? Archaeologists Uncover Details About the Bibles Bad Guy Philistines

A ceramic shard found at the excavation site in Tel el-Safi

Close to three millennia ago, Gath was on the frontier between the Philistines, who occupied the Mediterranean coastal plain, and the Israelites, who controlled the inland hills. The city’s most famous resident, according to the book of Samuel, was Goliath – the giant warrior improbably felled by the young shepherd David and his slingshot.

The Philistines “are the ultimate other, almost, in the biblical story,” said Aren Maeir of Bar-Ilan University, the archaeologist in charge of the excavation.

The latest summer excavation season began this past week, with 100 diggers from Canada, South Korea, the United States and elsewhere, adding to the wealth of relics found at the site since Maier’s project began in 1996.

In a square hole, several Philistine jugs nearly 3,000 years old were emerging from the soil. One painted shard just unearthed had a rust-red frame and a black spiral: a decoration common in ancient Greek art and a hint to the Philistines’ origins in the Aegean.

Finding Goliath? Archaeologists Uncover Details About the Bibles Bad Guy Philistines

Archaeologists working at Tel el-Safi site

The Philistines arrived by sea from the area of modern-day Greece around 1200 B.C. They went on to rule major ports at Ashkelon and Ashdod, now cities in Israel, and at Gaza, now part of the Palestinian territory known as the Gaza Strip.

At Gath, they settled on a site that had been inhabited since prehistoric times. Digs like this one have shown that though they adopted aspects of local culture, they did not forget their roots. Even five centuries after their arrival, for example, they were still worshipping gods with Greek names.

Archaeologists have found that the Philistine diet leaned heavily on grass pea lentils, an Aegean staple. Ancient bones discarded at the site show that they also ate pigs and dogs, unlike the neighboring Israelites, who deemed those animals unclean – restrictions that still exist in Jewish dietary law.

Diggers at Gath have also uncovered traces of a destruction of the city in the 9th century B.C., including a ditch and embankment built around the city by a besieging army – still visible as a dark line running across the surrounding hills.

The razing of Gath at that time appears to have been the work of the Aramean king Hazael in 830 B.C., an incident mentioned in the Book of Kings.

Gath’s importance is that the “wonderful assemblage of material culture” uncovered there sheds light on how the Philistines lived in the 10th and 9th centuries B.C., said Seymour Gitin, director of the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem and an expert on the Philistines.

That would include the era of the kingdom ruled from Jerusalem by David and Solomon, if such a kingdom existed as described in the Bible. Other Philistine sites have provided archaeologists with information about earlier and later times but not much from that key period.

“Gath fills a very important gap in our understanding of Philistine history,” Gitin said.

In 604 B.C., Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon invaded and put the Philistines’ cities to the sword. There is no remnant of them after that.

Crusaders arriving from Europe in 1099 built a fortress on the ruins of Gath, and later the site became home to an Arab village, Tel el-Safi, which emptied during the war surrounding Israel’s creation in 1948. Today Gath is in a national park.

The memory of the Philistines – or a somewhat one-sided version – was preserved in the Hebrew Bible.

The hero Samson, who married a Philistine woman, skirmished with them repeatedly before being betrayed and taken, blinded and bound, to their temple at Gaza. There, the story goes, he broke free and shattered two support pillars, bringing the temple down and killing everyone inside, including himself.

One intriguing find at Gath is the remains of a large structure, possibly a temple, with two pillars. Maeir has suggested that this might have been a known design element in Philistine temple architecture when it was written into the Samson story.

Diggers at Gath have also found shards preserving names similar to Goliath – an Indo-European name, not a Semitic one of the kind that would have been used by the local Canaanites or Israelites. These finds show the Philistines indeed used such names and suggest that this detail, too, might be drawn from an accurate picture of their society.

The findings at the site support the idea that the Goliath story faithfully reflects something of the geopolitical reality of the period, Maeir said – the often violent interaction of the powerful Philistines of Gath with the kings of Jerusalem in the frontier zone between them.

“It doesn‘t mean that we’re one day going to find a skull with a hole in its head from the stone that David slung at him, but it nevertheless tells that this reflects a cultural milieu that was actually there at the time,” Maeir said.

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  • Pastor Ray
    Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:59am

    Aequitas
    They keep it hidden in books

    You say the WORD of GOD is fiction but you BELIEVE in the words of books?
    Lord almighty you are one messed up soul!

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    • Aequitas
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 9:17am

      Pastor Ray

      The bible is a compilation of stories created by a pagan emperor for political reasons. These stories were told around a camp fire for entertainment, and then eventually those stories were comitted to paper. It’s not the word of a god.

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    • RaidersImperium
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 10:40am

      Have you ever talked even one person out of their belief with that crap?

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  • toddthewhovian
    Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:57am

    I read these posts and a see a few from unbelievers with this defensiveness towards Christians. Let me remind you that it is we Christians that are living in a secular world. The hostility you talk about is most likely the secret guilt that you swallow down as you pray to the most high God saying, ” Lord don’t watch me as I am in my sin.” I would be proud and glad to have any of you as a fellow believer. The ball is in your court.

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  • SREGN
    Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:52am

    The historical accuracy of the Bible has been verified time and time again. The prophetic accuracy is 100% so far. Yet some take great delight in scoffing. Stupid is as stupid does, Forest.

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  • V-MAN MACE
    Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:50am

    This clown, if you pay attention, is trying to convince us that giants didn’t exist, and that the David and Goliath story was exagerrated or contrived.

    Don’t believe the hype. Believe the word. There were giants in the earth in those days, and David slew one of the last remaining Giants with his sling.

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  • elphi43
    Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:41am

    That’s nice! The believers already believe…

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  • Alfredo2131
    Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:27am

    Stories like Samson stem from the more ancient Sumerian tale called the, “Epic of Gilgamesh” which chronicles his many strange adventures; one tells of him fighting and killing two lions with his bare hands. These Gilgamesh tales have been passed down for several millennia throughout Mesopotamia and spread across the region to other lands and cultures, including the Hebrew nation. One or more of the ‘Gilgamesh’ tales were often ‘revised’, and chronicled as part of a nations history from a cultural and/or religious perspective. Check Aztec and Mayan history; they tell a tale of a strong man who fought and killed two ‘cougars’ with his bare hands! (lions don’t exist in S. America). And they got their story from….?

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  • nysparkie
    Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:22am

    The bigger they are……

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  • GodHatesFigs
    Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:18am

    Just because New York exists doesn’t mean spider man is real.

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    • JUSTANOTHEROPINION
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 10:28am

      God loves you anyway.

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    • ILoveGlenn
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 11:10am

      That is the worst urgument I have ever heard from a rational man!

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    • ILoveGlenn
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 11:19am

      I meant to reply to this comment:
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      GodHatesFigs
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:18am
      Just because New York exists doesn’t mean spider man is real.

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  • uptickusa
    Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:16am

    GOD and everything in the universe is made of energy-period

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  • Talmid of Yeshua
    Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:12am

    OH, you mean the actual Palestinians? Not the fake Arab ones we have today? I know the Romans re-named Israel after it’s arch-enemies, the Philistines as a way to poke the Israelites in the eye. But don’t let actual history get in the way of letting the Muslims steal the land. It‘s just too bad that the Crusaders weren’t more effective.

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 12:01pm

      The arabs of todays palestine and all of the mid east are mixed with the people who were there before and subsequently,as are people just about everywhere on earth.All people come from somewhere else, most are mixed and the only legal borders of israel are the 67 borders[as per international laws and UN resolution242].All else is ,though of interest to historians and fundamentalist Christians and Jews is irrelevant to todays political realities.[Gaza is occupied, the arabs[which comprise jews, muslims and christians] were there prior to the european zionists influx in their homelands and territory annexed through war is illigal[hence the 67 borders are illigal].

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:02pm

      @Rose — Gaza is occupied by Hamas. Israel left it a while back in Arab hands.

      Pls get your facts straight before you “go off” on the Jews.

      Judea-Samaria has historically been the core of the Jewish homeland. This is what people who subscribe to your opinion call occupied.

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    • Ranubis
      Posted on July 9, 2011 at 5:32am

      @rose-ellen

      The fact is Israel concurred all the “occupied land” during the six day war. There for it’s theirs and “F” the UN resolution 242. Just as the Americans concurred all the land that now is the USA (excluding the Louisiana purchase) and it’s ours, and just as every other nation concurred land from their weaker neighbors to become what they are today. That’s just the way it is honey, if you don’t like it get off the ride.

      By the way, to you comment “The Arabs of today’s Palestine and all of the mid east are mixed with the people who were there before and subsequently, as are people just about everywhere on earth”, my ancestors came to the USA in the early 1900′s from Sicily, I DO NOT consider myself a Sicilian/Sicilian American, I’m 100% American, I was born here and there for that’s what I am…what are you

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    • yohannbiimu
      Posted on June 6, 2012 at 1:26pm

      The word “Philistine” is taken from a Hebrew term (“Plishdim”) for “invader.” The very word for the culture and people aforementioned have been lost to history, save this one Hebrew term. From there, the Romans derived “Palestine,” and yet, the so-called “Palestinians” (whom, until very recently, had never existed in all of human history) claim that all of the land of Israel is historically THEIRS.

      This is the truth of the matter, yet, essentially the whole of mankind has been fooled by the so-called plight of “Palestinians,” and their claims, history be damned.

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  • Carol Ingian
    Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:03am

    What an exciting experience this must be for those involved. To uncover history is wonderful, to uncover Biblical history is even greater!

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    • UPSETVET
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 10:26am

      Skeptics have tried to find proof in order to try to discredit the Bible since ancient times and so far they haven’t suceeded. You know what ? THEY NEVER WILL !

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  • Scrubpuppy
    Posted on July 8, 2011 at 7:58am

    Now thats some pretty epic stuff right there. It’s a shame that culture was wiped out, but I‘m sure there’s lots to learn from what we find.

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  • Aaron in Polk County
    Posted on July 8, 2011 at 7:54am

    @Aequitas
    Very well said, but be careful in this forum.

    These Christians are hostile.

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    • Scrubpuppy
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:01am

      @Aaron

      I would say some Christians are hostile because you bait them. Some are probably indifferent to you, and then there’s me, who looks past your obvious sniping at Christianity because you usually make some decent points.

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    • Aequitas
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:14am

      I don’t go out looking to assault peoples beliefs or mock them for what they believe. My position is based on facts and history has shown and continues to show that religion has done more harm than good.

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    • PurrrpleMtnMajesty
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:45am

      Aequitas
      Oh, really? I question where you learned your history.

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    • Aequitas
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:53am

      They keep it hidden in books

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    • brnm8brn
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 9:29am

      it’s not religion that does harm it is the people in power who twist it around to convince people of faith this is what they should do. look at the lib’s in office now a few years ago they were appalled at the mention of god, but for healthcare and humanitarian wars all of a sudden you can’t get them to shut up about the bible or god or as PeeLosi said my favorite word is well uhhh the word. people will always twist religion for power. God gave us a choice and i choose god, it’s a lot easier wandering thru life believing in nothing, and if i’m wrong oh well nothing lost, but if your wrong you may have hell to pay

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    • ldwaddell
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 9:34am

      Please sight your proof that overall religion has done more harm than good (espeically the Christian religion as that is the one most commonly attacked). Also there is a difference between the midevil religions, where the state and the religious institutions co-mingled and modern faith. You can still see the effects of midevil religion in the Mulsim practice of shariah law.

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    • Leader1776
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 11:34am

      @AEQUITAS
      Saying you’re fact-based then never citing facts rings a bit hollow. Now explain the harm caused by your atheist buddies on the left. Massive human misery all in the name of moving mankind forward. Worship Gov not God ……… only difference is your punishment is here on earth and you’ll meet your Maker more quickly than under other governments. Care to give the approximate percentage of ‘citizens’ of those regimes that had to be eliminated to achieve acceptance of those regimes? Need a copy of the Little Red Book that cites that (I have a scanned PDF)? I know how you’re fact-based.

      Greed, hostility, anger, violence are human characteristics, not left or right, D or R, corporate or public sector. And I thought you on the left were based in science.

      I am actually, in part, in agreement that some religions have been culpable in activities that have added to human misery. ANYTHING highly organized begins to set agendas. But that fact must be put into context of human history, regardless of your agenda.

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    • dpmeek71
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 11:59am

      @Aequitas

      If you mean the history of men distorting the Bible for their own means you are correct.

      However, historically there is far more historical evidence that the Bible and Jesus are what and who they say they were. Keep in mind that there are +24,000 original manuscripts supporting the Biblical account of Jesus many of which were written 24 years after his death. Compare that to Socrates, about whom only 4 original manuscripts exist and they were written 1,000 years after his death. I doubt that you would say that Socrates was not who he claimed to be. Just some history to think about.

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    • GodBlessAmericaandIsrael
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 12:39pm

      It may seem that way, that religion has done more harm then good when you look at the history of mankind. We as mankind are flawed and are able to ruin even the most wonderful of God’s gifts, his Son. If everyone would truly except the word of the Lord, then there would be no disputes or war, only love and peace. The flaw that is mankind has written mankind’s history, not the true teachings of our faith.

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    • sisserydoo
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 3:58pm

      Aaron, you make me laugh. YOU are the hostile one.
      Aequitas, I think people in general do more harm than good, not religion. When you look at the majority of hospital, colleges, orphanages, homeless shelters, etc. they were started by….Christians! It’s true :o) Do you really think that by taking away religion, people would become more kind, generous, caring and loving? I think just the opposite would happen. Yes there are kooks out there, religious and non-religious. It’s just that when people commit atrocities for religious reasons it makes it all that much more despicable. It also makes it more conspicuous, because the things they are doing are in direct contradiction to the things they claim to believe. For me personally, there are mean things I want to do or say and I don’t do them or say them because I’m Christian. I think that’s the case for many, many people. I think as a general rule religion does more good than harm.

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    • Aequitas
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 4:50pm

      The bible is a compilation of cherry picked stories created by a 4th century pagan emperor for political reasons. These stories were told by old men sitting around a camp fire and then eventually those stories were committed to paper. It’s not the word of a god or some great deity.

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    • yohannbiimu
      Posted on June 6, 2012 at 1:38pm

      Aequitas, you keep talking about these tales coming from a 4th century (BC or AD?) “pagan emperor,” but you do not mention who this was. If what you say is historically true, then who was this imaginative guy? Enlighten us.

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  • BIGJAYINPA
    Posted on July 8, 2011 at 7:53am

    As usual belivers need no affirmation and non-belivers will accept no proof. I firmly belive the Bible to be the word of God and the story of Israel and Jesus. I require no further proof than my own faith and pity those who will never know a Father’s love. We will all know the truth at the Day of Judgement and for those who don’t belive it will be too late…..Just sayin’

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    • Liberal Basher
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 2:56pm

      Your faith is proof of nothing. Physical evidence is what counts and there is no physical evidence the universe was created in 6 days by an invisible man.

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  • Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
    Posted on July 8, 2011 at 7:53am

    So, was Goliath one of the Nephilem, a space alien baby, or just a random mutation in the human genetic code that resulted in giantism? The Bible must say, and we all know, it’s never wrong, nor is it ever disproven by real science.

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    • Texas Fire
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 12:47pm

      The first Nephilim come into being in Genesis 6 when the sons of God (fallen angels) had sexual relations with the daughters of men. These offspring were bastard hybrids that could not be redeemed. They so messed with the DNA of mankind that Noah and his family were the last “bloodline” path that Jesus the Messiah could later be born of Mary. Even though the flood wiped out all flesh of the earth and air not on the ark and the primary misbehaven fallen angels were dealt with (refer Book of Enoch and 2 Peter 2:4) – Some other fallen angels appear to have persisted in the forbidden co-mingling behavior.(Research works by Chuck Missler, also, Randy Demain)

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  • searching for the Truth
    Posted on July 8, 2011 at 7:50am

    Improbable. Have to have a bit more faith than that.

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  • DonaldH
    Posted on July 8, 2011 at 7:46am

    Interesting!! The description of the Philistines who appear in the biblical story as the perennial enemies of the Israelites is applicable to two groups of modern day peoples,,, the Liberals and the Muslims,,, very interesting,,, and telling, too

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  • Aequitas
    Posted on July 8, 2011 at 7:40am

    The bible is the #1 fiction bestseller. And all bestsellers have some form of an account of something. But it’s still fiction.

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    • DonaldH
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 7:49am

      So is “Seperation of Church and State” but I’m sure you recite it often as a factual sentence in the U.S. Constitution……

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    • 66 bronco
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 9:38am

      @AEQUITAS

      Have you ever read the Bible, I mean all the way through or just took other people’s words about???? Before you call it a fictional book, read it cover to cover. Then go and try it disprove it with either science or other ancient historical books. Then we’ll talk about this again….. because you’ll have a totally different view!

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    • beckwill
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 10:10am

      But the real question is….. have you read it?

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    • Aequitas
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 10:33am

      @BeckWill
      what part of yes are you having trouble with?

      @Jezereel
      Are you saying science is a global conspiracy and nothing but lies? And the first members of our species were fashioned out of dirt and devine breath, in a garden with a talking snake by the hand of an invisible being.

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    • John 3:16
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 10:27am

      @aequitas. The biblical stories have never and never will be proven to be fiction: Now don’t you find that a little ironic with all our modern, secular, scientific, technology? These so called super intellectual people are all failures. People who claim that it is fiction, are just desirous of making themselves god, that way they get to make the rules for their own conscience and will. Most people who decide the bible is fictious, will believe in things much more outlandish such as the Big Bang theroy and evolution: These my friend are the real fictcious stories. It’s fine that you decieve yourself, but you can never decieve those that our GOD has enlightened. The bible is the greatest truth man will ever find. The bible will be accurate long after the earth is no longer a place for man to inhabit.

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    • Brad Wesselmann
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 12:33pm

      “…but you can never deceive those that our GOD has enlightened.”

      When I read this I just smiled with peace that I am not alone…that feels good. :-)

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    • SovereignSoul
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:16pm

      I don’t think they have ever been proven to be non-fiction, as well.

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on July 8, 2011 at 7:33am

    The earth is full if mysteries. God created us to look further into his creation and to look at ourselves, our past. Therefore it’s appropriate to question everything.

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  • seaweaver
    Posted on July 8, 2011 at 7:27am

    Very cool….Now….someone tell me how a Jew Fish converted to a Philistine?
    Which branch of government arbitrarily changed the name Jew Fish…to Goliath Grouper?
    There’s a dig for an archeologist.

    cw

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 5:26pm

      Or something you can find in 30 seconds if you look in Wikipedia.
      The Committee on Names of Fishes, a seven-member joint committee of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and the American Fisheries Society in 2001.

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  • Berticus33
    Posted on July 8, 2011 at 7:25am

    Time and again the Bible is proving to be an accurate historical account, not a fairytale as some would have use believe.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on July 8, 2011 at 7:24am

    I have heard this news several years back where they did indeed find the grave of Goliath, his family and more in the region of Gath; so nothing new here for me.
    http://artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm

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    • fancydancy
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 9:30am

      They may find Goliath’s body but his head was carried to outside Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified…GOL (Goliath) from Gath….GOLGATHA…the place of the skull. Smile. I learned this from the Joseph Prince ministries along with a bunch of other good things. I looked it up and sure enough it says David jumped on him, pulled out the giant’s own sword and cut his head off and carried it to the outskirts of Jerusalem. I never knew that before.

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:36pm

      Perry Stone has a good teaching on this also. He explains the significance of the scriptures about Jesus being crucified over where Goliath’s head is burried. Jesus bruising His heal and bruising Satan’s head. It’s good stuff!

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 1:39pm

      Just when you think The Blaze got it together with posting, it still won’t post comments where they were intended…………*&^^%$#!@#$%^

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  • curmudgeon60
    Posted on July 8, 2011 at 7:18am

    BILLY!!! Why would you say “a one sided version”? (re: Phillistines) God’s Word is the Right side! You went to a Catholic College and don’t believe that?! Anyway interesting article-but we don‘t need proof to substantiate God’s Word.

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 3:54pm

      It’s a one-sided version because we don’t have a Philistine or Canaanite history book to compare it to, the way wee have Roman history books to compare the New Testament to. The belief that the Bible is God’s word is also one-sided. The other side would be – no it isn’t.

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    • seenandheard
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 11:25pm

      Chet you are another person who tries to expound on something he has never studied nor has any knowledge about, but you still open your mouth and show total ignorance on the subject. There is tons of evidence to substantiate the claims of the Bible including it’s claim to be the Word of God. I challenge you to disprove its claims. God promises if we seek Him whole heartedly that He will reveal Himself to us. Give it a sincere try.

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  • Aaron in Polk County
    Posted on July 8, 2011 at 7:18am

    Okay…..?

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  • bluegoldnationdotcom
    Posted on July 8, 2011 at 7:15am

    Do you think this will make the CBS News as a affirmation of the Bible’s accuracy?

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 3:41pm

      No, because it isn’t. We already knew that Philistines existed, just as we knew that Hebrews and Romans and Egyptians existed. That doesn’t mean you can trust every detail of a history book that was written many years after the events occurred.

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    • RED PILL PATRIOT
      Posted on July 9, 2011 at 8:17am

      Hmmmmm, That’s the key to Christianity, Faith.

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  • IvanK
    Posted on July 8, 2011 at 11:09am

    Truer words have never been spoken! As a young man I heard all the bible stories and decided many were simply good stories. Later in life, as an ancient archeology buff, I began realizing that more and more of the stories of the bible were being affirmed through these sites. The archeology confirms so very much of the bible that a reasonable ( NOTE REASONABLE) person cannot deny that the places and events mentioned in the bible didn’t occur. It is party because of this that my spirituality and beliefs have cemented. THose who deny the word are simply being narcissistic to their own prejudices.

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