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Who Killed Goliath?
Elhanan, of course, as Claude Mariottini explains. Share this: Digg this postRecommend on FacebookTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this postTell a friend
Wise Women 5: Mediums
The Spirit-woman of Endor First Samuel 28 tells the story of the eve of King Saul’s death. The night before his final battle against the Philistines, distraught and having come up short in all of the normally available means of … Continue reading
Wise Women 4: Mourners
Singers of Dirges In addition to presiding over births, a wise woman may also have a role at the liminal time of a death in the community. This is also a role with broad cultural currency in the ancient world. … Continue reading
Posted in Old Testament, Wealth of Egypt
Tagged 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, Deuteronomy, Genesis, Jeremiah
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Wise Women 2: Mediators
Authority Israel’s wise women held authority. The very use of the title “wise woman” without any further identifying comment in 2 Samuel 14 and 20 suggests that this was a familiar role at least to the original hearers of the … Continue reading
Posted in Old Testament, Wealth of Egypt
Tagged 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, Judges, Numbers, Talmud
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Wise Women 1: Mothers in Israel
Wise women played socially important roles in virtually every ancient culture. In Rome, ten Sybils—prophetesses—are mentioned by name in the prologue to the Sybilline Oracles. Oliver Gurney notes at least thirteen (perhaps as many as thirty-two) of these women by … Continue reading
The Valley of Elah: A Playground for Storytellers
The story of David and Goliath is one of those tales we love to tell. It’s also a story we love to embellish in the telling, and often with a humorous slant. Here’s the story in LEGO (H/T Know Thyself … Continue reading
Solomon and Social Oppression
Claude Mariottini is beginning a new series of blog posts on King Solomon’s “Golden Age”—and the oppressive policies it took to get there: Today I am beginning a series of studies that will explore the social and economic policies of … Continue reading
Why Was David Tending the Sheep?
Some interesting insights into shepherding from this excerpt from Margaret Feinberg’s latest book: The introduction of Saul stands in sharp contrast to the first mention of David, the second king of Israel. The prophet Samuel is told by God that … Continue reading
Saul and Goliath: The Tale of the Tape
According to the Masoretic Text, Goliath’s height was “six cubits and a span” (1 Sam 17:4), or slightly over nine feet tall. However, Josephus, the Septuagint, and the Dead Sea Scrolls Hebrew text of 1 Samuel both give a more … Continue reading
Where’d He Get That Idea?
In 1 Samuel 18:20-30, Saul demands of David the foreskins of 100 Philistines as a kind of “bride price” in order to marry his daughter Michal. Not to shrink from a challenge, we are told that David went out and … Continue reading
