rylah
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Yes except that the Greeks used the term "allophuloi" instead of 'philistines', which simply means 'other people'.I believe that "Palestine" referred to the land itself. Jews wanted to be Israeli, not Palestinian. The Arabs could name the land allotted to them as Palestine but they never did. Don't forget, I was in school during that time and I remember the names and terms used. We studied the events because we lived in a time when history was being made.
They named it Palestine you moron, or they wouldn't have called themselves the people of Palestine.
Who originally named the are 'Palestine'?
What language was the word taken from?
Looking through the Italian sources, heirs to the Romans, the word was transmitted to the Romans by the Greeks who transliterated the Egyptian term for the Philistines.
And indeed the earliest record about the Philistines comes from the temple of Ramses. The Egyptians called these people 'Pleset', very close to the Hebrew 'Pleshet' and other Semitic languages.
Can You tell us what do 'pleset/pleshet/philistine' actually mean in Hebrew or Egyptian?
"Invaders" I think. The Philistines were a seafaring, warlike, non-Semitic people who continuously fought the Israelites. Come to think of it, they were very much like the current Palestinians.
Yes except that the Greeks used the term "allophuloi" instead of 'philistines', which simply means 'other people'.They named it Palestine you moron, or they wouldn't have called themselves the people of Palestine.
Who originally named the are 'Palestine'?
What language was the word taken from?
Looking through the Italian sources, heirs to the Romans, the word was transmitted to the Romans by the Greeks who transliterated the Egyptian term for the Philistines.
And indeed the earliest record about the Philistines comes from the temple of Ramses. The Egyptians called these people 'Pleset', very close to the Hebrew 'Pleshet' and other Semitic languages.
Can You tell us what do 'pleset/pleshet/philistine' actually mean in Hebrew or Egyptian?
"Invaders" I think. The Philistines were a seafaring, warlike, non-Semitic people who continuously fought the Israelites. Come to think of it, they were very much like the current Palestinians.
You have to separate the history based on archaeological evidence from the biblical fantasy. The Philistines mainly fought against the Egyptians, not the Jews, who arrived later. Peleset is transliterated from hieroglyphs and does not mean invader, it is a place name for the area of the 5 cities that the Philistines founded in what is today southern Palestine from about where Jaffa is to Gaza. Since, the Muslims and Christians of Palestine were minding their own business when the Zionists began invading Palestine from another continent, you have your analogy backwards.
Yes let's follow the archaeological evidence- the Philistines weren't even Semites.
A Very Different Method of Burial
The excavations revealed a burial practice that is very different from that of the earlier Canaanites or the neighboring Judeans. Instead of laying a body in a chamber, then collecting the bones a year later and moving them elsewhere (a "secondary" burial), the individuals buried in the Ashkelon cemetery were buried individually in pits or collectively in tombs and never moved again. A few cremation burials were also identified.
While some other Philistine cities were destroyed in the late ninth to eighth centuries B.C., Ashkelon thrived until its destruction at the hands of Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar in 604 B.C. The city was ultimately reoccupied by the Phoenicians, followed by the Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, and Crusaders, and was ultimately wiped out by the Mamluks, Egypt's Islamic rulers, in 1270 A.D.