To my mind, the way the story is pitched is backwards. Goliath, however large a person he was, was defending his homeland. David was on the side of the invader, using advanced weaponry. Unfortunately, I don’t think it’s possible to reframe the story because it’s too ingrained in too many people. Which further shows how difficult it is to get people to shift their worldview.
The Israelis and the Philistines were at war, so of course each was defending their group. Biblical fictional narratives and embellishments aside, I could not find any references to your version of events (though I'm open to such evidence if present) that David was the invader and Goliath was the defender.
Do you have any references to your version of events? I would be interested in looking at such and possibly falsifying 'established narratives' based on the veracity of the evidence.
Historically, at least according to the bible, the Israelites came from a city called UR in Mesopotamia to Palestine, which, although it was already inhabited, was "given" to them, by their god. Among those indigenous were the Philistines, "Felastin", in modern Arabic. Goliath was a Philistine, 1 Samuel 17. These were, and some might claim still are, the indigenous people of Palestine, from whence the word derives. Therefore, the Philistine, Goliath, was defending his homeland of Palestine from the Israelites.
To my mind, the way the story is pitched is backwards. Goliath, however large a person he was, was defending his homeland. David was on the side of the invader, using advanced weaponry. Unfortunately, I don’t think it’s possible to reframe the story because it’s too ingrained in too many people. Which further shows how difficult it is to get people to shift their worldview.
The Israelis and the Philistines were at war, so of course each was defending their group. Biblical fictional narratives and embellishments aside, I could not find any references to your version of events (though I'm open to such evidence if present) that David was the invader and Goliath was the defender.
Do you have any references to your version of events? I would be interested in looking at such and possibly falsifying 'established narratives' based on the veracity of the evidence.
Historically, at least according to the bible, the Israelites came from a city called UR in Mesopotamia to Palestine, which, although it was already inhabited, was "given" to them, by their god. Among those indigenous were the Philistines, "Felastin", in modern Arabic. Goliath was a Philistine, 1 Samuel 17. These were, and some might claim still are, the indigenous people of Palestine, from whence the word derives. Therefore, the Philistine, Goliath, was defending his homeland of Palestine from the Israelites.