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دافيد والجلوات أو الجالوت

الخوف هو اكبر عدو للإنسان و يكون كارثة ومصيبة وشلل تام عندما يصيب شعب بأكمله والمصيبة عندما يتحول الخوف إلى وهم دائما و خصوصا عندما يتوقع الجميع أن العدو لا يقهر وبالتالي يودي ذلك إلى الوصول الى النتيجة المؤلمة وهي مرحلة الاستسلام والخنوع والاكتفاء بالتضرع والتوسل وانتظار الغد وسنوات أخري وأخري

ذكر في الأديان السماوية الثلاثة اليهودية و المسيحية والإسلام قصة الجالوت وكيف كان الخوف والرعب يصيب بني إسرائيل وكان يرعبهم سماع قصته أو لرويتهم الى الجالوت

والجالوت هو عبارة عن شخص عملاق يتجاوز طوله حسب الروايات أكثر من ثلاثة أمتار وهو ينتمي لقوم فلسطين ويحاول المؤرخون القول بان قوم فلسطين هم أتوا من جهة اليونان وهناك روايات أخرى وعدة في هذا الجانب التاريخي لسكان فلسطين وهناك مئات القصص و الروايات التاريخية عن الحروب التي مرت بها الأراضي الفلسطينية وحتى يومنا هذا

وحسب هذه الروايات أو حسب ما ورد في الأديان الثلاثة بأنه عند احد المعارك التي دارت بين شعب الفلسطيني و بني إسرائيل كان أنداك كل طرف يجب عليه يقدم مقاتل لفتح باب المعركة وهو ما يسمي بالمعركة الانفرادية لفتح باب المعركة الجماعية فقدم قوم الفلسطين الجالوت هذا الرجل الضخم العملاق الذي كان عندما يمشي تهتز الأرض التي يضع أقدامه فوقها وقدم بني إسرائيل والخوف يكاد يحصد بهم و يجعلهم يهربون حيث قدموا شابا راعي غنم اسمه دافيد

وما إن بداء التقدم كل منهم اتجاه الآخر وجد دافيد فكرة خارقة وهو رمي الجالوت بحجارة علي رأسه من بعد لأنه لا يستطيع الاقتراب منه لان الاقتراب منه يعني الموت خصوصا بان الفرق في القوة يرجح لصالح الجالوت الضخم الذي كان الكل يعتقد بما فيهم بني إسرائيل وقوم فلسطين وحتى دافيد نفسه بأنه هذا الضخم لن يقهر أبدا ومهما أوتي من قوة

ولكن بضربة حجارة واحدة علي رأسه سقط القالوت و انقض عليه دافيد مسرعا وقطع رأسه ورفعه عاليا أمام قومه صارخا قتلته قتلته وما كان من قوم بني إسرائيل إلا إن انقضوا علي قوم فلسطين الذين كان عددهم حسب الروايات يتجاوز خمس أضعاف بني إسرائيل و لم ينقد بني فلسطين إلا الهرب وبكل سرعة أمام بني إسرائيل

احتفل بني إسرائيل أنداك بهذا الانتصار ولمدة سبعة أشهر وتم تعين دافيد ملك لإسرائيل وبالتالي يعتبر الملك دافيد ملك إسرائيل الأول ومؤسس إسرائيل

القصص طويلة و مشوقة عن هذه الأسطورة أو عن هذه الواقعة

الرسامين والنحاتين أبدعوا في ذكر هذه الواقعة ولعلي الذين تجولوا في مدينة فرينسا الايطالية الجميلة روا وشاهدو تمثال دافيد وهو يحمل رأس جالوت

القصص والتحاليل كثيرة لشخصية دافيد والجالوت

الطب الحديث يرجع ضخامة الجالوت الى عيب تكويني أدى الى ضخامته الخ وان انتصار دافيد لم يكن إلا نتيجة الى أن المعلومات التي لا تصل بسرعة إلي عقل الجالوت وان علماء النظر أو العيون أيضا يقولون بان الجالوت لم يكن يري بزاوية أفقية للأشياء التي هي أمامه مما أدى الى وصول الضربة علي رأسه دون رويتها بشكل طبيعي الخ

لما أنا اكتب عن هذه القصة الجالوت ودافيد

الإجابة وبكل بساطة

إن العمالقة يقهرهم أيضا الأقزام فيجب علينا الخروج جميعا من مرحلة الخوف والانهزام والاستسلام ومن تم لا يمكن الحصول علي الحقوق إلا بنبذ الخوف ومواجهة الخصم بكل شجاعة

إن أي دكتاتور مهما أوتي من قوة أو جبروت فان هزيمته لا تكمن إلا في كسر حاجز الخوف ومواجهته كما واجه دافيد الجالوت

هل يمكن أن تكون لنا هذه القصة عبرة ؟

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Goliath (Bible)

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For other uses of "Goliath", see Goliath (disambiguation).

David faces Goliath in single combat.

Goliath (גָּלְיָת "Passage; revolution", Standard Hebrew Golyat, Tiberian Hebrew Golyā) is a Philistine warrior mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and a descendant of Rapha. He is famous for his battle with the Jewish King David (in the 11th century BC) He hailed from Gath, one of five ancient city states in Philistia.

Account in the Hebrew Bible

According to the First Book of Samuel in the Hebrew Bible, the Philistine army marched into southern Israel to make war on the Israelites, but instead of immediately engaging in battle, went into camp in the Valley of Elah. The Israelites under King Saul made camp nearby. Goliath, who is described as a "champion" in the Biblical text, positioned himself between the two armies and challenged the Israelites to send out a warrior to challenge him. If that man won, the Philistines would become the subjects of Saul's army. If Goliath won, the converse would occur. For forty days, in both the morning and evening, Goliath issued his challenge. However, no man came forward to accept it.

David, who was born approximately 1530 B.C., was the youngest of the eight sons of the Bethlehemite Jesse. When delivering roasted grain and bread to his brothers on the battlefield, David heard Goliath's haughty challenge and burned with anger. The youth came before Saul and offered to fight the giant, who stood six cubits and a span (three meters, or 9 feet 5.7 inches to be exact). More modern biblical translations estimate that in fact he stood at four cubits and a span, or six-foot-six. [1] Though initially skeptical of David's capacity to defeat Goliath, Saul was persuaded to allow the match after the young Bethlehemite detailed his previous victorious encounters with a bear and a lion. David rejected the king's offer of armor and a sword and went out to fight Goliath with a staff and five smooth stones he had taken from a nearby stream.

The young Hebrew David hoists the severed head of the Philistine Goliath.

Goliath mocked the young Hebrew for coming against him with "sticks," cursed him by the names of the Philistine gods, then closed in to attack. However, David drew a stone from his bag and used his sling to send it flying into the giant's head. When Goliath fell to the ground, David drew the Philistine's sword from his scabbard and killed him by decapitation. When the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they ran from the field, and the Israelite army pursued them out of Judah.

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Textual conflicts

David may not have been the one to kill Goliath. Elhanan, the son of Jaare-oregim the Bethlehemite, is given credit for killing Goliath in 2 Sam 21:19. The KJV adds the phrase "the brother of" before Goliath's name in order to avoid contradicting the story of David's victory.

The KJV insertion is justified by the parallel account of Elhanan's deed at 1 Chron 20:5b, which states that "Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath." The word "Jair" here is "Jaare-oregim" at 2 Sam 21:19b; "oregim" is Hebrew for "weavers," which also appears at the end of both verses. Also, "Lahmi" (Hebrew "´eth-lach·mi´," where "´eth" simply means that Lahmi is the object of the verb "slew") in the former becomes "behth hal·lach·mi´" (“Bethlehemite”) in the latter. Hence many scholars view 2 Sam 21:19b to be the result of two scribal errors, with 1 Chron 20:5b as the correct account.

David about to cut the head off Goliath, by Michelangelo

However, other scholars argue that Elhanan may have been the victor over Goliath, but that David was later credited with the deed in order to enhance his reputation. It has been contended that, because of David's introduction to Saul in 1 Samuel 16:19-23, Saul should have known who David was in 1 Samuel 17:55-58 and would not need to ask whose son David is, especially since Jesse, David's father, is also mentioned in the earlier passage.

One response to this is to argue that the earlier passage only implies that the servants of Saul knew that David was the son of Jesse. There is no reason to believe Saul had to have known that Jesse was David's father two years later in Chapter 17.

Another problem is that David is said to have brought Goliath's head to Jerusalem (1 Sam 17:54), though Jerusalem belonged to the Jebusites at the time, which casts some doubt on this detail of the story.

The following websites provide Biblical-literalist accounts for the discrepancies. http://www.carm.org/diff/1Sam17_50.htm

http://www.carm.org/diff/1Sam16_19.htm

http://www.tektonics.org/af/callahanproph.html#2sam

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Extra-Biblical evidence

Unearthed shard of pottery bearing an inscription consisting of two names "alwt" and "wlt", which are etymologically quite similar to the name Goliath

Archaeologists digging at Tell es-Safi in central Israel, the accepted location of the biblical home of Goliath ("Gath of the Philistines") have unearthed a shard of pottery bearing an inscription, written in Proto-Semitic letters, consisting of two names "alwt" and "wlt"), which are etymologically quite similar to the name Goliath, and most probably are semitizised versions of an Indo-European name (similar, for example to Lydian Alyattes). This find demonstrates that the biblical description of the figure Goliath (and in particular, his name), fits in with the cultural millieu that existed in the Southern Levant during the Iron Age IIA (10th-9th centuries BC).

The shard dates back to around 950 BC, within 70 years of when biblical chronology asserts David squared off against Goliath, making it the oldest Philistine inscription ever found, the archaeologists said.

Scientists made the discovery at Tell es-Safi, a dig site in southern Israel thought to be the location of the Philistine city of Gath.

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Islam

Goliath is also mentioned in the Qur'an under the Arabic name جالوت Ǧālūt (see Similarities between the Bible and the Qur'an).

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Medical speculation

Some intriguing medical hypotheses have been made concerning Goliath's size and general health. Given his grossly abnormal height (believed to be 9ft 6 1/2 in (291 cm)), some have suggested that he suffered from acromegaly due to a growth hormone-secreting pituitary adenoma. Given the pituitary's position adjacent to the optic chiasm, pituitary masses also tend to impinge on the decussating fibers delivering images from both peripheral visual fields. This causes bitemporal hemianopsia. Some have suggested that this may have allowed David to sneak up on Goliath and deliver a fatal sling shot to the Philistine.

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Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli, in The Prince, states that we should learn this lesson from David and fight with our own weapons, using our own strengths, and not try to borrow or hire those of others.

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Idiomatic use

"David and Goliath" is now a proverbial expression of a small force defeating a larger one.

Goliath is the nickname for a fossilied individual of the species Homo heidelbergensis. The story of David and Goliath is allegory for the ascent of Homo sapiens and our displacement of other early human species. See also Gog and Magog.

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External links

Goliath - Bible Verses pertaining to Goliath

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References

God

Kirsch, Jonathan (2000) King David: the real life of the man who ruled Israel. Ballantine. ISBN 0-345-43275-4.
Has the Biblical Goliath Been Found?

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