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 |  Subject: Digging Up Biblical History: Gath, Gaza, And The Nephilim Goliath  Sun Aug 06, 2017 7:28 am | |
| Digging Up Biblical History: Gath, Gaza, And The Nephilim GoliathAugust 6, 2017 by SkyWatch Editor  Gath, in about 1200 BC, was a border town on the frontier between Philistia and Israel. The Philistines, newly arrived settlers from modern-day Greece, controlled the coastal plains while Israel lived in the hill country beyond. The conflict between Israel and Philistia is recorded in Judges and 1 Samuel, and the Tel El-Safi dig sheds new light on the historicity of those texts. For example, the book of Judges tells us that Samson, blinded and abused by the Philistines, knocked down the two pillars in the temple of the god Dagon, causing it to collapse and kill everyone in it. According to the AP article, at Gath archaeologists uncovered ruins that chief archaeologist Dr. Aren Maeir referred to as a match to that design described in the book of Judges. Similarly, pottery shards have been found with names similar to Goliath written on them. Goliath in the Bible was from Gath and his name is not Semitic, but rather Indo-European and consistent with Philistine origins in Greece.(READ MORE) |
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