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Re: Stephen Hawking once gave a simple answer as to whether there was a God

By: micro in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (0)
Thu, 06 Jun 24 2:16 AM | 17 view(s)
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Approximately 18 inches. Some people less, some people more depending on long one's arms are..

That's a problem iffen you are trying to build something that needs to be consistent in measurements for fitting..

12 people working and 12 different board lengths all supposed to be the same..

I wouldn't want to be on that boat out in depths..

I know that was a common way of doing things. The 18 inches I referenced was not set in stone. It is a number used by many Professors as being close to what a "cubit" was in length generally was.

I doubt anything was a snug fit or air tight if we just everyone's elbow to fingertip measurement..

On average the foot and a half seems to be pretty much what that length turns out to be but their is some slight variances..




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Re: Stephen Hawking once gave a simple answer as to whether there was a God
By: Zimbler0 in 6TH POPE
Thu, 06 Jun 24 12:06 AM 		Msg. 53932 of 58530

Micro > You believe the Israelites and Egyptians, and Assyrians and Persians were only four feet tall ???

Micro > AS for the Cubit, 18 inches is a common length of that specific area you described accurately.. That's where 18 inches comes from..


The 'Cubit'.
How many people had rulers or tape measures back in the time of David and Goliath?

There is a very good reason why the cubit was originally defined as "length of the forearm from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow" . . .

Do I believe Biblical Peoples were a lot shorter? Not particularly. I probably saw numbers similar to what Decomposed posted.

But the point I was trying to make is that trying to claim the biblical cubit was 18" is erroneous.

Another point is who and how was Goliath measured? Did they use a small persons cubit? Or a large persons cubit? Or was Goliath even actually measured?

More likely the 'news report' was written after the fact and the 'reporter' was writing about a 'larger than average Goliath' versus a 'smaller than average shepherd boy with a slingshot' . . . And possibly even inflated the size of Goliath figuring it might make better copy.

Bottom line. You can't prove Goliath was nine feet tall. Unless someone can find human skeletons that tall.

Was there a battle between a 'David and Goliath'? Probably. And possibly even a battle between an oversized muscle bound mental pygmy and a scrawny shepherd boy who's rock was guided by God. A story between a David and Goliath is the sort of thing that 'oral folklore' might pass down through the ages. And, like that flounder fish I once caught while on vacation down in Texas it just keeps getting bigger in the retelling.

Zim.

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