tables.Robert Dohrenwend’s article “The
Sling: Forgotten Firepower of
Antiquity” (Journal of Asian Martial
Arts 11, no. 2 [2002]) is a very good
introduction to the power of the sling.
Moshe Dayan’s essay about David
and Goliath, “Spirit of the Fighters,”
appears in Courageous Actions—
Twenty Years of Independence 11
(1968): 50–52.
The idea that Goliath suffered from
acromegaly appears to have first been
suggested in C. E. Jackson, P. C.
Talbert, and H. D. Caylor, “Hereditary
Hyperparathyroidism,” Journal of the