Was Goliath only 6.5 feet tall?
Recently some biblical scholars have questioned the true height of the giant Philistine, Goliath. Their renewed resistance to the biblical record in 1 Samuel 17:4 arises out of a Qumran scroll among the Dead Sea Scrolls that contains a different reading that reduces Goliath’s height by three feet (nearly a meter). The Hebrew Masoretic Text …