“hebrew” –>
“to divide”
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(empire based in modern-day ‘palestine’)
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(appearing in ‘1175 BCE’)
(enemy of ‘israel’)
“phicol”
(philistine military leader)
(hebrew for “great”)
(modern meaning) –>
(an “enemy of art”)
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(/ˈfɪlᵻstiːnz/, /ˈfɪlᵻstaɪnz/, /fᵻˈlɪstᵻnz/, or /fᵻˈlɪstiːnz/; hebrew: פְּלִשְׁתִּים, Plištim)
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(the philistines were a people who migrated to the southern coastal plain of ‘canaan’ in the ’12th century BCE’)
(the primary source about the ‘philistines’ is the ‘hebrew bible’, but they are first attested in ‘reliefs’ at the temple of ‘ramses III’ at ‘madinet habu’, where they are called ‘peleset’, accepted as cognate with hebrew ‘p’léshet’)
(‘egyptian sources’ describe the ‘philistines’ as part of a confederation of “peoples of the sea”, ‘naval raiders’ that attempted to invade ‘egypt’ during ramses III’s reign.
(‘assyrian sources’ also refer to pilišti and palaštu, also believed to be cognate with ‘p’léshet’)
(the first reference to ‘philistines’ in the ‘hebrew bible’ canon is in the ‘table of nations’, where they are said to descend from ‘casluhim’ (son of ‘mizraim’ (of ‘egypt’))
(however the ‘philistines’ of ‘genesis’ who are friendly to ‘abraham’ are identified by ‘rabbinic sources’ as distinct from the warlike people described in ‘deuteronomistic history’)
(‘deuteronomist’ sources describe the land of the ‘philistines’ as a ‘pentapolis’ in ‘southwestern levant’ comprising the 5 ‘city-states’ of ‘gaza’, ‘ashkelon’, ‘ashdod’, ‘ekron’, and ‘gath’, from ‘wadi gaza’ in the ‘south’ to the ‘yarqon river’ in the ‘north’)
(this description portrays them at 1 period of time as among the kingdom of israel’s most dangerous enemies)
(in contrast, the ‘canon’ of ‘eastern christianity’, the LXX, uses the term “allophuloi” (greek: ἀλλόφυλοι) instead of “philistines”, which means simply “other nations”)
(there are several theories about the origins of the ‘philistines’)
(several biblical passages connect the ‘philistines’ to other biblical groups such as ‘caphtorim’ and the ‘cherethites’ and ‘pelethites’, which have both been identified with ‘crete’ and which has led to the tradition of an ‘aegean’ origin, although this theory has been disputed)
(in ‘2016’, the discovery of a huge ‘philistine’ cemetery, containing more than ‘150 burials’, seems to point toward an ‘aegean’ origin of the ‘philistines’)
(‘genetic testing of the ‘human remains’ will provide further information)
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