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== The name Goliath ==
== 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). [[User:PiCo|PiCo]] 13:31, 26 June 2007 (EDT)
I deleted some material about the non-Semitic nature of the name "Goliath" being used as an argument against the historicity of Goliath. In fact scholars have known for quite a long time that the 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). [[User:PiCo|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.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]]<sup>[[User talk:TerryH|Talk]]</sup> 15:09, 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.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]]<sup>[[User talk:TerryH|Talk]]</sup> 15:09, 26 June 2007 (EDT)
::I haven't come across the non-semitic origin of Goliath being used as an argument for the non-historicity of the Goliath story in 1 Samuel 17 - could you provide me an example? So far as I know the Philistines have long been identified with the Egytian "sea peoples" (i.e., that's what the Egyptians called them, not what they called themselves); one of the "sea peoples" were the Peleset, or Philistines, whom the Egyptians describe as settling on the coast of Canaan in the area later known as the cities of the Philistines. This was about 1200 BC. Gath was one of those cities, and the most powerful of the Philistine cities, together with Akron/Ekron, at the time of David - it was later destroyed by Hazrael of Damascus and never resettled. Please read up and satisfy yourself that you really are right and I'm wrong. (I'm not at all unfriendly, I just want to get it right). [[User:PiCo|PiCo]] 07:36, 28 June 2007 (EDT)