shekels of iron.” He has need of a “shield” carrier, leaving both arms free to wield his ton weight of spear (17:4–7). It’s a lesson in how to look invincible. The symbol of Iron Age Philistia asks to meet the representative Israelite: “Am not I a Philistine, and you servants to Saul?” (17:8). In terms of his armor, Goliath is no different from his Bronze Age Mycenaean forebears, who, on the Warrior Vase wear long-sleeved tunics under corsets of steel, “greaves that reach just above the knee, and