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Taking a Sling

How David defeated Goliath

By Boyd Seevers, Victoria Parrott

The biblical story of David and Goliath is gripping and inspiring, but is it credible? How could the lowly shepherd defeat the formidable Philistine warrior with so simple a weapon as a sling? Discover the lethal capabilities of slings that give credence to the biblical account.

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Footnotes

1. Hershel Shanks, “Destruction of Judean Fortress Portrayed in Dramatic Eighth-Century B.C. Pictures,” BAR, March/April 1984.

2. Boyd Seevers and Joanna Klein, Biblical Views: “Left-Handed Sons of Right-Handers,” BAR, May/June 2013.

Endnotes

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This article is based on the evidence and arguments presented in Boyd Seevers and Victoria Dennis, “Slinging in the Biblical World: And What We Can Learn About David Defeating Goliath,” Near Eastern Archaeological Society Bulletin 63 (2018), pp. 1–12.