Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

I have heard Israel Finkelstein compare the description of Goliath's armor
and weapons in 1 Sam. with those of a 6-5th century Greek hoplite. of course
his conclusion was that the story reflects the reality of Greek mercenaries
in the Levant at the time of its writing.

Yigal

----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
To: "Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 6:22 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Aegean Ethnic determinatives on
PhilistineguardsofJudean king...


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Polycarp66 AT aol.com
>
> > In a message dated 1/25/2004 2:27:36 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> > kwrandolph AT email.com writes:
> > I noticed that these terms were used exclusively to refer to soldiers.
What
> > made me suspect that it may refer to classes of professional soldiers
was the
> > realization that the PLTY is always written with a definite article
prefix in
> > Tanakh, which would have had a pronunciation of “hapeleti”. This sounds
> > awfully similar to a class of soldiers among the Greeks, who had
imported a lot of
> > their culture along with their alphabet from Semitic sources.
> >
> > The terms, as well as the weaponry, may have been Philistine, but in the
list
> > of David’s top soldiers, almost all of them were native Israelis (2
Samuel
> > 23).
> > _________
> >
> > Are you implying that the Greek "hoplite" derives from this?
> >
> > gfsomsel
>
> Any reason why not?
>
> Karl W. Randolph.
>
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