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This was actually a pretty standard way of recording the number killed in battle. You can see in the Libyan War inscriptions for Merneptah discussion of how they took wheelbarrows of dicks of the uncircumcised, and the more unusual part is the mention of taking the hands instead from the sea peoples who were “without horns” (generally understood to have meant they were without foreskins).
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It’s good to be the king.
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Always be hustling.
I mean, to be fair, this was 3,000 years before that.
Though not like hyperviolence doesn’t happen anymore, even in ‘civilized’ militaries.
I dunno. I used to look at a town in France where the neighbors came in, pillaged, raped, and killed such that bodies were left dismembered for ages as this little microcosm example of how far the world had come from the senseless barbarism of antiquity.
But literally just a few days ago we had mass killings, rapes, and dismemberment from one group going in and attacking their neighbors as brutally as they could. And that was on top of having already been rather upset after reading just months before about Russians torturing POWs by feeding barb wire up their rectums to slowly pull it out.
We still seem to be doing our best to be as fucked up as possible.
It’s just that the parts of society that aren’t fucked up have arguably come a much longer way than the parts of society not fucked up in antiquity. Which is pretty much the only bright side I can see anymore.
- researchers use foreskins to test new cosmetics on.
- if you are in the cosmetic industry you’d want a good foreskin supplier.
This is true. I used to work at a foreskin medical supply company. We would do massive shipments to various cosmetology companies, schools, and some hospitals.
To be fair, it says he killed 200 philistines, not that he collected 200 foreskins.
So half of them were probably women, and he was just disappointed with the droprate like a bad MMO quest.
The other guy is David. King Saul would get super jelly of how popular David was getting (with all the foreskin collecting, I guess) and would eventually go on a murderous hunt for David and his men.
Also, Saul had a son, Johnathan. David and Johnathan have a lot of “no homo” moments.
First and Second Samuel and First and Second Kings. They’re a trip.
