Bible scholars have theorised that the skull of the giant Goliath killed by David is buried beneath where Jesus was crucified.
David and Goliath is story described in the biblical Book of Samuel in which the giant warrior is defeated in single combat by the young boy, who would go on to become the King of Israel.PROMOTED STORY
Bible scholars are always trying to hunt for historical proof that the stories recounted in their holy book actually occurred to help prop up Christianity.
And a theory proposed by many claims that Goliath’s skull may actually be buried beneath where Jesus was crucified outside Jerusalem.
No one has yet launched a dig to find the skull, and there are still questions of the historical existence of the Biblical version of the legend.
Jesus is believed to have been crucified in area known as Golgotha, which translates in the gospels to the Place of the Skull.
Bible theorists have proposed that Golgotha may be the site of the burial of Goliath’s skull, or at least where it was displayed by David.
The story goes that David chopped the head off the giant after killing him with his sling.
Goliath is recorded to have stood between 6ft 9in and 9ft 9in tall, with the latter believed to be an overestimation caused by mistranslation.
Myth records that Goliath, fighting for the Philistines, issued a challenge to the Israelite army for any man to face him single combat.
David – who is bringing food to the battlefield – accepts the challenge, and hurls a stone in Goliath’s face, knocking him down, before decapitating him.
Christian minister Bonnie Nelson, from Firestorm Ministries, suggested the head has to be buried at Golgotha as it fulfils prophecies laid out in Genesis.
For her website, she writes: “I would say logically, in looking at this stuff, David took the head of Goliath, and buried in Jerusalem on the hill of Golgatha.
“And that is why it became known as, the hill of the skull. Could it really be that simple?”
For Nelson, Goliath represents the “seed of the serpent” spoken of the Bible’s first book – so she says, “if Goliath’s head was buried there it fulfilled Genesis”.
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