The word Rephaim is a Hebrew word for “giants.” According to the Bible, they were a people who were said to be tall, like the Anakim. They were known as the Emim by the Moabites (Deuteronomy 2 ...
As a religion scholar, however, I believe one of the greatest loves in the Bible is a story of friendship: the intense devotion between the warrior Jonathan and David, who later became king of Israel ...
It appears, for example, in the classic description of the relationship between God and Israel in the Book of Deuteronomy ... who is portrayed as a towering giant of a soldier, a champion of ...