He confessed it’s the hair! He was shorn, captured, blinded and sentenced to hard labor. On the day of the great festival to the Philistine god Dagon, they brought him to the temple to torture and ...

As you can imagine, the Israelites were afraid and begged Samuel not to stop crying out to the Lord their God to rescue them from the hand of the Philistines. As Samuel called out to the Lord and ...

The Philistine captives of the Egyptians as portrayed in a relief sculpture in the Medinet Habu Museum. Credit: Remih/ Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 Philistines were very likely of Greek origin, ...

Then there’s the matter of aesthetics. But what do I know as an art philistine about such lofty ideals? Admittedly the stag (or stags, because there appears to be a doppelganger stag behind the ...

For several years now, poor Christopher Columbus has received quite a bit of bad press. While I do not intend to kick the man while he is down, I recently discovered that on Jan. 9 in the year ...

For several years now poor Christopher Columbus has received quite a bit of bad press. While I do not intend to kick the man while he is down, I recently discovered that on today’s date of Jan ...

The Philistines were one of the most prominent nations inhabiting ancient Palestine. According to the Bible, they were constant enemies of the Israelites. However ...

Beelzebub is a devil created lusts in priests, rules with tyrants and causes men to worship devils and demons rather than to worship god. A great player of politics, Beelzebub was also supposed ...