Sa mu el 362 The issue of Goliath’s killer becomes even more complicated with The Philistine giantthe reading of the elaborated story in 1 Sam 17 . 27 is fully introduced by his name Goliath as well as his hometown Gath v . 4 ) . In the rest of the story, however, he is only once more referred ( to by this explicit identification ( v . 23 ) . Elsewhere in this episode, he is referred to 27 times only by his ethnic identification “the Philistine,” and several more times by a personal pronoun . Yet in two other epi - sodes in Samuel, the giant is referred to again as Goliath the Philistine 28 . ) גלית הפלשתי — 10 : 21 ; 10 : 22 ( The fact that in the main story, Goliath’s name is mentioned only twice, and in the Epilogue, his killer is called Elhanan has led scholars and commentators to offer two different reconstructions . The first suggestion is that, indeed, the one who smote Goliath was another Bethlehemite whose name was Elhanan . But during David’s reign, according to this view, th...
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