21 A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; but Yahweh destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:

The Anakim

I have already alluded, in a previous chapter, to the men of Gath, or as it is now called, Beit Jib rin, or "the house of Giants." We still find the neighbourhood of this town producing an exceptionally tall and fine race of peasants, greater and more stalwart men than those found in any other part of the country. Yet men hesitate to believe the Bible when it speaks of a race of giants as existing there, and discredit the mention of the Anakim who so terrified the Israelite spies when they visited this and the surrounding districts.

It is a commonly-known fact that the Patagonians are an exceptionally tall race of men. Now, if there existed ancient heathen records containing allusions to Patagonian giants in former ages, scientific men (anthropologists, as they are called) would sing triumphant pæans over the consonance between the old account and the existing facts, nor would they ever dream of throwing discredit upon the former, or of explaining away the latter.

But, alas, this is not the spirit in which modern science always approaches the Bible!

‭ ‬E.‭ ‬H.‭ ‬Palmer - History of the Jewish Nation

The Christadelphian, Aug 1874