61 How David Kills Goliath Idem 1967 : 24 – 26, 42 ) . On the other hand, the story of ; 35 – 3 : 1964 the duel between David and Goliath manifests a great resemblance century BCE ) , the Iliad and the Odyssey,to Homer’s epics ( late 8 th especially in terms of weaponry and the “representative duel” . There is a consensus among the latter group of scholars that the story of David and Goliath does not reflect the Philistine art of warfare century . century BCE, nor the subsequent 10 th of the end of the 11 th Yet, on the other hand, most of them argued that Homer’s epics influenced the final shape of the biblical story of David and Goliath . When time had come to draw a conclusion about the final redactor of this story and to pinpoint his date, however, the latter group separated and suggested discrete periods . Century BCEFinkelstein and Silberman suggested the late 7 th as the proper time when the story reached its final shape . This was the time of the Josiah’s comprehensive reform ....
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