Friday, March 11, 2022

Who killed Goliath?

TEXT AND CANON INSTITUTE: Who Really Killed Goliath? Knowledge of scribal mistakes may provide a better solution to the historical puzzle of who killed Goliath in 2 Samuel 21:19 (Kaspars Ozoliņš). HT the ETC Blog.

Did you know that the Bible is inconsistent about who killed Goliath? But I think Kaspars Ozoliņš is correct about the solution to the problem.

For many PaleoJudaica posts on Goliath the giant, see the links collected here (cf. here).

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