They try to disguise it with mistranslations as being "head and shoulders taller", but in earlier translations and tracing back to the original Hebrew we find in 1 Sam 9:
From his shoulders upward, he was taller than all the people.
Unless he had a real long neck, he must have had a real long head.
One can further infer that longheads were not exceptional at the time, since the Bible doesn't specifically note that. By analogy, one might note that a woman has real big boobs, but would not specifically note that she is a person with boobs since that is taken as literally unremarkable.
I hope I didn't offend anyone by talking about the Bible and boobs in the same comment.
You know, I've thought along those lines but I've never been able to make a rigorous connection between the longheads and the Nephilim. Consider their typical characteristics:
Longheads: long skulls (obv) and tall but otherwise normal human bodies. Infrequently, the skulls have hair and it appears reddish. Apparently lived freely in community with humans.
Nephilim: giants, six fingers, six toes, double rows of teeth, red hair, often violent and cannibalistic, sometimes lived with humans but more often in separate and often hostile communities.
Not much overlap except for the red hair, which is very intriguing but far from conclusive. In years I've never stumbled across evidence as to what their real relationship might have been.
Also, there's the issue of beauty and it's standards. The Nephilim may have been big and powerful, but I don't think I've ever heard them described as beautiful.
Saul is described as "tov" and "bachur". Translations vary, but in any case I think he is being described as attractive. Well, today as in all times, beauty standards are set by the elites in society. Longheads burials have often indicated they were the elites of the day, so you see how it ties together that Saul had "movie star good looks".
King Saul was one of these "longheads".
They try to disguise it with mistranslations as being "head and shoulders taller", but in earlier translations and tracing back to the original Hebrew we find in 1 Sam 9:
Unless he had a real long neck, he must have had a real long head.
One can further infer that longheads were not exceptional at the time, since the Bible doesn't specifically note that. By analogy, one might note that a woman has real big boobs, but would not specifically note that she is a person with boobs since that is taken as literally unremarkable.
I hope I didn't offend anyone by talking about the Bible and boobs in the same comment.
That suggests that Saul was a Nephilim descendant. It would explain why he went against God so easily and why his bloodline was extinguished. Hmmmmmm
You know, I've thought along those lines but I've never been able to make a rigorous connection between the longheads and the Nephilim. Consider their typical characteristics:
Longheads: long skulls (obv) and tall but otherwise normal human bodies. Infrequently, the skulls have hair and it appears reddish. Apparently lived freely in community with humans.
Nephilim: giants, six fingers, six toes, double rows of teeth, red hair, often violent and cannibalistic, sometimes lived with humans but more often in separate and often hostile communities.
Not much overlap except for the red hair, which is very intriguing but far from conclusive. In years I've never stumbled across evidence as to what their real relationship might have been.
Also, there's the issue of beauty and it's standards. The Nephilim may have been big and powerful, but I don't think I've ever heard them described as beautiful.
Saul is described as "tov" and "bachur". Translations vary, but in any case I think he is being described as attractive. Well, today as in all times, beauty standards are set by the elites in society. Longheads burials have often indicated they were the elites of the day, so you see how it ties together that Saul had "movie star good looks".
In my view, we still have a mystery on our hands.
Mysteries will soon be revealed.