Elah Battle and the Duel of David with
Goliath: Between History and Artistic
Theological Historiography” appears in
Homeland and Exile (Brill, 2009).
Baruch Halpern’s discussion of the
sling appears in David’s Secret Demons
(Eerdmans Publishing, 2001), 11.
For Eitan Hirsch’s calculations, see
Eitan Hirsch, Jaime Cuadros, and Joseph
Backofen, “David’s Choice: A Sling and
Tactical Advantage,” International
Symposium on Ballistics (Jerusalem,
May 21–24, 1995). Hirsch’s paper is
full of paragraphs like this:
Experiments with cadavers and
hybrid simulation models indicate