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dockeen · 07-09-2011, 11:32 AM

Ran across this today:

http://news.yahoo.com/israel-diggers...095524724.html

Roger Pearse · 07-09-2011, 11:39 AM

There was a rithe in the prithe of gath of 20% today.

Toto · 07-09-2011, 11:55 AM

Pretty soon you will be reading about the historical Goliath.

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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.

jgoodguy · 07-09-2011, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Toto

Pretty soon you will be reading about the historical Goliath.

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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.

Find a big skull with dent in the middle?

PhilosopherJay · 07-09-2011, 12:07 PM

Hi dockeen,

I think this quote from the article:

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An Israeli town founded in 1955 several miles to the south, Kiryat Gat, was named after Gath based on a misidentification of a different ruin as the Philistine city.

is relevant to recent discussions on the location of Nazareth whose citizens are called Nazorenes, in the same way Loompaland has citizens called oompa loompas and the citizens of Lilliput are called Lilliputians.

Warmly,

Philosopher Jay

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Originally Posted by dockeen

Ran across this today:

http://news.yahoo.com/israel-diggers...095524724.html

Vorkosigan · 07-09-2011, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Roger Pearse

There was a rithe in the prithe of gath of 20% today.

Yur sutcha gath, Roj

Minimalist · 07-10-2011, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Roger Pearse

There was a rithe in the prithe of gath of 20% today.

I didn't know you had it in you, Roger. Very good.

Toto · 07-11-2011, 01:39 PM

Christian Post on Gath

Notice the point of view. The search for the historical Goliath is on.

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Search for Biblical Philistines Attracts 100 Archaeologists

In the Bible, the Philistines are known for opposing God’s chosen people, the Israelites. Aren Maeir, the archaeologist from Bar-IIan University who is leading the disinterment, hopes new findings will give people a more defined look into the life of the Philistines.

The ancient city was once home to Goliath, the infamous giant killed by the stone of David in the Bible. Although the excavation in south Israel began in 1996, archaeologists who joined the project from U.S., Canada and South Korea have made legitimate contributions with brand new findings.

“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, according to The Associated Press.

Although the archaeologists have yet to find any of Goliath’s remains, ...

Toto · 07-11-2011, 01:43 PM

Contrast the AP take:

At site in Israel, archaeologists seek to sketch the lives of Goliath’s countrymen

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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.

... 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 sling.

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.

aeebee50 · 07-11-2011, 07:19 PM

The pig and dog diet must of helped Goliath to grow so tall.

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