What really happened before the religious scribes got their hands on the story of David and Goliath?
Goliath Attention readers: This book deserves top 100 rating on this site! The author has my respect for refusal to engage in blind back-slapping. That which made Hallelujah for Leonard Cohen, will do the same for Alistair Forrest, for they both have a common focus: David, King David. This is the David who we sing about in the carol ‘Once in Royal David’s City’, the same who was traced as ancestor to Jesus Christ in genealogy carefully guarded by bible historians. The book could alternately have been titled ‘David’, but it was Goliath who made David and I agree with the author’s choice. Among historic written records which issue from the last few millenia, few have shaped western civilisation collectively more than The Bible. Interpretation of holy scriptures was for centuries restricted to high priests of dominant religous orders, who used and abused them to their own ends. What many hold today as sacred bible record may bear little resemblance to reality in the day of origin; this is
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