Talk:Goliath

Dual User provenance

This article is largely a dual submission of original work. I am the same user as Temlakos on CreationWiki, and the material for my edits of this article is based on this version of the CreationWiki article, which (except for the link to a previously uploaded image) is entirely my own work.--TerryH^Talk 13:57, 29 May 2007 (EDT)

Robert Wadlow

The comparison between Wadlow and Goliath is for medical reasons only, as both suffered from gigantism. However, while Goliath was a fearsome soldier for the Philistines, Wadlow was a complete opposite; he was known as "the Gentle Giant" by Alton residents and was very well-loved by many. Karajou 14:33, 29 May 2007 (EDT)

The name Goliath

I deleted some material about the non-Semitic nature of the name "Goliath" being used as an argument against the historicity of Golaith. In fact scholars have known for quite a long time thatthe Philistines originated from Asia Minor/Greece and were of Indo-European ancestry - hence finding an Indo-European name on a potsherd in a Philistine city was no surprise. (In fact there were two names on the postsherd, ALWT and WLT - neither is identoical with Goliath, which is thought to be connected with the Lydian name Alyattes, but they share similarities). PiCo 13:31, 26 June 2007 (EDT)

Sorry, but I don't accept that as friendly. In fact, skeptics of the historicity of Goliath did use the non-Semitic nature of his name to make their point--as the reference I cited clearly states.--TerryH^Talk 15:09, 26 June 2007 (EDT)