Category Archives: Numbers 13-14
Jim West justifies Genocide
According to Numbers chapter 14:11-12, the national god of Israel, Yahweh, once made up his mind to kill the entire population of Israel - about two or three million Israelites – but for Moses and his family. The background is provided … Continue reading
Filed under Anakim, Numbers 13-14
How tall were the Giant Anakim? Out with the biblical scholars; in with the biblical conspiracy theorists, children’s books authors, government propagandists, homeschoolers, and pre-moderns!
When the Israelite spies explore the land in Numbers 13, they report seeing giants: the “descendents of Anak” . The question that most people ask me is: how tall were these Anakim? They were remarkably tall, if we accept the comparison the spies make … Continue reading
Dancing on “The Tomb of Caleb” – The Facts Under the Ground
According to Numbers 13-14, Moses sent a group of spies to spy out the promised land. The spies returned to the whole assembly of Israel, and discouraged them from entering into the land, claiming that they had seen giants there. But Caleb, … Continue reading
Filed under Numbers 13-14, War, Violence & Business
The age of King Og at the time of his death
Tanzanian correspondent “chamshama” wrote in to Remnant of Giants with a query: I want to know the age of King Og At the time of his death. And I’m sure that many of our readers do too, chamshama! In Deut. … Continue reading
Filed under Ancient Jewish texts, Deuteronomy 3, Emim, Genesis 6.1-4, Joshua 14-15, King Og, Nephilim, Numbers 13-14, Rephaim, Zamzummim
How tall was your average Philistine woman compared with Goliath? As it turns out: about the same as Kim Kardashian compared with Kris Humphries!
Did you know that the heights of Kim Kardashian (5′ 1″) and fiance Kris Humphries (6′ 9″) perhaps exactly match the average heights of an ancient Philistine woman and Goliath? 1 Samuel 17 sets the story of David and Goliath sometime in what we … Continue reading
Filed under 1 Samuel 17, Goliath, Numbers 13-14
The Cardiff Giant to be Resurrected by Syracuse artist, Ty Marshal
What do you call an artistic reproduction of a hoax? Syracuse artist Ty Marshal is resurrecting The Cardiff Giant, perhaps the greatest hoax perpetuated in nineteenth-century America, or at least the greatest hoax involving a Giant. Back in 1869, George Hull, a scurrilous trickster, fooled wagonloads of New … Continue reading
Filed under Ancient Jewish texts, Genesis 6.1-4, Numbers 13-14
The Height of the Giants who survived the Flood
Readers often write in to ask: how tall were the Giants in the Bible? Remnant of Giants has already provided an answer to the question, ‘How tall was Goliath?‘. But what about the other biblical Giants? How tall were they? Q. How … Continue reading
Filed under Biblical Giants, Genesis 6.1-4, King Og, Macrophilia, Nephilim, Numbers 13-14
Giant Librarians of the Ancient World
I learned something I never knew about Giants from the best basic guide to Giants of the Bible. According to Big Bad Bible Giants, authored by Ed Strauss and illustrated by Anthony Carpenter (Zondersexist, 2005), the Bible tells the story of an ancient city populated … Continue reading
Filed under Anakim, Ancient Jewish texts, Children's lit, Joshua 14-15, Judges 1, Numbers 13-14
