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 ...

published in 1862 Dagon, the Fish-God - a deity worshiped in Mesopotamia and Syria. It was the main god of the Philistines. Wood engrafing after the 'Oannes' Relief in Khorsabad (Dur-Sharrukin, ...

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 ...

What are the best god games on PC? Whether you’re a benevolent deity, carefully managing a virtual world so that everyone can live in comfort and harmony, or an agent of chaos who has gone mad ...

In trying to understand the present it is helpful to examine it from the perspective of the past. In the Book of Judges, we find the familiar story of Samson ...

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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, ...

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 ...

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 ...