{"id":54131,"date":"2019-04-21T18:46:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T15:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=54131"},"modified":"2022-11-13T13:03:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T11:03:21","slug":"a-really-tall-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-really-tall-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"A Really Tall Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[575,404],"acf":{"old_id":"54131","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"202","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"They might be giants...","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In our explanation of the origins and development of the name Hebron (chapter 14), we noted that it had also been called Kiryat Arba on account of four of its previous inhabitants. In this chapter, we are provided with the additional information that three of those inhabitants, who were displaced by Caleb, were <em>`<\/em><\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">anaqim<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, named Ahiman, Sheshay, and Talmay (v. 14). Are <em>`<\/em><\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">anaqim<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cgiants\u201d as almost universally presumed, and can we ascertain what that meant objectively?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If I ask you to name a giant in the Bible, you would almost certainly answer: Goliath, whose extraordinary height the Bible reports as \u201csix cubits and a hand span\u201d (1 Samuel 17:3). Considering (a) according to the <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guiness Book<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em> of Records<\/em>, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cthe tallest man in medical history for whom there is irrefutable evidence\u201d stood 8 ft. 11.1 inches tall, and (b) that a cubit is estimated between 1\u00bd and 2 feet, a nine-foot tall Goliath is incredible, but not outside the realm of empirical possibility. The more curious fact, for our investigation, is that the Tanakh does not specifically call Goliath\u00a0<em>`<\/em><\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">anaq<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Note that all 18 usages of <em>`<\/em><\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">anaq<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> occur in either Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, or Judges (8 of them in Joshua alone), indicating that its use is confined to the particular era those books encompass, namely the conquest of the Land of Israel. Deriving from a poetic Hebrew word for neck, <em>`<\/em><\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">anaqim<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> may be defined as \u201clong-necked ones,\u201d although an alternate derivation would designate them as descendants of someone named `Anaq, who was their father or ancestor (v. 13-14). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier in the conquest (Joshua 11), it was reported that Joshua eliminated the <em>`<\/em><\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">anaqim<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from Hebron and the Judean hills (v. 21) and that they remained only in Gaza, Gat, and Ashkelon (v. 22), three cities of the Philistines. Arguably, the Tanakh expects us to span the gap ourselves. If Goliath was an exceptionally tall man from Gat, he was, implicitly, an <em>`<\/em><\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">anaq<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> so perhaps there was no need to stipulate it in the text.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>image: The Giant, by Francisco de Goya (or\u00a0Asensio Juli\u00e0), 1808 \/ wikimedia<\/p>\n","image":{"ID":54132,"id":54132,"title":"jo15-The_Giant_by_Goya","filename":"jo15-The_Giant_by_Goya.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo15-The_Giant_by_Goya.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-really-tall-tale\/jo15-the_giant_by_goya\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"jo15-the_giant_by_goya","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":54131,"date":"2019-04-21 15:43:53","modified":"2022-03-07 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