Symbolically, is Goliath supposed to stand for a pure evil entity...

He's supposed to symbolize pure, raw, earthly power, and how it is incapable of standing up to the Divine.

It's literally a story about how you should not bring a knife to a gunfight why do you fags need to overinterpret this sorts of tiny details, it's basically the same autism that allows for a "painting" entirely composed of piss stains on a canvas be sold for millions

No, it's about wits defeating strength, idiot

And this too

The average Near Easterner was 5'5

A similar event was recorded during the Spanish reconquista:

Leonardo Tola, born in Ozieri around the middle of the fifteenth century, still young he enlisted under the banner of arms of Arborea and fought like a valiant in Uras, the Castle of Monreale, Sanluri and Cagliari (1476) against the viceroy D. Nicolò Carroz.
In 19 May 1478, on the route of Macomer, he protected, with admirable precaution, the retreat of the defeate D. Leonardo Alagón, last Marquis of Oristano, who had left the kingdom of Arborea in the hands of the foreign forces.
When this glorious reign fell, Leonardo went to Spain to continue his fortune in arms. Here, at the siege of Granata, he immortalized his name with a singular act that recalls the ancient and memorial triumph of the prophet king over the gigantic Goliath.
It was a stiff day in December 1491. For more than six months the siege of Granata lasted and the Moors already lacked food and courage. The two armies, lined up in front, were ready to pluck. The Moors already dreamed, with one last effort, to annihilate the Christian camp, composed of over six thousand fighters, the flower of the Spanish and Italian youth; when a Saracen of Herculean proportions, almost a giant, with pride without measure, proceeded by provoking them and challenging any Christian who wanted to compete with him.

So much boldness irritated the brave Ozierese; who accepted the challenge, he took off and, abandoned the ranks, he presented himself, full of courage, before the pavilion of D. Ferdinando, asking to be granted to him - small in stature - to repel the insolent provocation.
Having obtained the permission, he freed himself from the weight of his weapons. Radiant with joy, he went to meet the Saracen, bold and casual - amid the general amazement of the fighters - with a rope in his hand, at whose extremity he had, unthinkingly, a string. The moment is difficult, supreme. An eager anxiety invades all minds. Some mutter about the recklessness of the Sardinian. In such painful uncertainty only Leonardo does not show to be upset. He keeps his composure. He is sure of himself. The zeal of the cause, for which he fights, holds his courage.
The new Goliath, who is within walking distance, looks at him with a sneer, contemptuously .... When the new David arrived, he managed his rope - in the same way that the Sardinian shepherds wiggle it, with rare dexterity, to the pursuit of the unyielding young bullock - and in a flash he adjusts the noose around his neck and threw him to the ground. He drags him to the field, and he presents the half-chocked giant to the monarch's pavilion, to the enthusiastic applause of the Catholic army and the curse-cries of the Moors.
So much heroism impressed the Moors and revived the Castigliani. He resumed his arms, with new and unusual enthusiasm, the Saracens who were left were routed and defeated; forced, after 780 years the Saracens abandon forever the city of Granada and the Spanish soil.
Once our Leonardo became, rightly so, the hero of the day, he was on the field decorated with the equestrian girdle by King D. Ferdinando, and filled with honors and riches.

somebody told me that Goliath was a Cretan and that the Philistines were a Greek colony.

true?

Daily reminder that David was a fuccboi and Saul taped that boipussy.

the symbolism is that you cana win against all odds, even against a giant, overwhelming problem, with God alongside you
philistines were, together with others, the so called 'Sea People'.

so greeks then? they could have also been phoenicians though

Im not very sure if greek is the correct term.
And they were assimilated by the phoenicians and other levantines/ canaanites

There's evidence of migration from Cyprus but also from Greece and Crete through Cyprus to Palestine right after the Philistines are recorded by the Egyptians to have invaded Egypt and the Levant with other sea peoples, which is strong evidence for an overseas arrival of the Philistines, but it's difficult to pinpoint exactly from where, probably from a variety of places since they belonged to the sea peoples who were a multiethnical confederation of pirates, later on in the bible a distant memory of their arrival from overseas comes from the memory that they were arrived from "Caphtor", which is probably related to the Egyptian and Near Eastern word for Crete "Keftiu"

The story of David and Goliath teaches judeochristian children that if they play dirty they can overcome those who are better and much more deserving of an honourable victory. That's the point.

thank you for they infromation anons

well if they came overseas, they have got to be Minoans. Though it stands to question whether these "sea peoples" were collections of Greek tribes.

lol when will you learn?

>if they play dirty they can overcome those who are better and much more deserving of an honourable victory
>honourable victory
Life isn't fair (and, in this context, war)

It was actually just a retread of the classic Virgin vs Chad story. As usual written from the viewpoint of the virgin who used his writing mainly as a form of wish fulfillment.

The Minoans were ruled by a Mycenaean elite, well they were until a few years before the sea peoples' invasions took place, those invasions actually took place during the years when the Mycenaean palace system collapsed, it was a period of extreme chaos and disruption, when pirates from all over the coasts united to wreck havoc, the Cypriots were recorded to have cooperated with the Lycian pirates, and Cyprus also had a strong Greek and Cretan presence, it's really difficult to pin point what happened exactly. But even Homer recalls in his Odyssey that Crete was an island inhabited by a dozen different peoples speaking different languages and it was a basically a pirate stronghold, Odysseus in fact had to pretend to be a pirate to be accepted there, and he joined the peoples of Crete as pirate and raided Egypt with them but was captured by the Egyptians, this is almost certainly a memory of the sea peoples' raids in Egypt, because exactly the same happened with the sea peoples, who were captured and hired as mercenaries by the Egyptians just like Homer tells