Philistine Research Articles

Fighting the Philistines: Bishop John Purcell, the Catholic Disruption of the 1830s, and the Making of Memory

Fighting the Philistines: Bishop John Purcell, the Catholic Disruption of the 1830s, and the Making of Memory

Philistine and Israelite Identities: Some Comparative Thoughts

Philistine and Israelite Identities: Some Comparative Thoughts

Genetics helps tackle the origins of the Philistines

Genetics helps tackle the origins of the Philistines

How Many Philistines and Other Outside Groups Arrived in Canaan?

How Many Philistines and Other Outside Groups Arrived in Canaan?

The Machiavellian, the Philistine, the Romantic: Rereading Human, Ah, Human!

Within the few years of its first publication in 1980, Dai Houying’s most popular and controversial novel Human, Ah, Human! drew significant attention from literary scholars throughout Chinese and English world and was often interpreted by the liberal humanist discourse as the representative work of the “thaw literature” or as the plea to revive the “human.” Recently, such appropriations of the notions of “the human” have raised suspicions among some critics both from the Beijing‐based “revisiting the 1980s (重返八 十年代) group” and some Western critical scholars, who begin to reevaluate Marxist humanism in the 1980s China. This paper, however, attempts to utilize several post‐humanist critical theories that have been persistently on guard against the theoretical limits of both liberal and Marxist humanism to reinterpret this novel. Here, the novel Human, Ah! Human , is able to encompass both the contradiction and reconciliation of various kinds of “human” voices. This paper will revisit its theatrical setting where the newborn “human” figures encounter and contend with one another. Rather than the sudden emergence of a humanist hero, or a Marxist humanist hero, it is the encounter of the Machiavellian wild individual, the philistines who pursue earthly happiness, and the romantics, that offer the untrodden path to approach the historical “real.” This paper will exhibit their combinations, permutation, and rehearsal in the fictional structure.

Where Did the Philistines Come From?

Where Did the Philistines Come From?

Review of Mark McEntire and Joel Emerson, Raising Cain, Fleeing Egypt and Fighting Philistines: The Old Testament in Popular Music

Soren Holst reviews Mark McEntire and Joel Emerson, Raising Cain, Fleeing Egypt and Fighting Philistines: The Old Testament in Popular Music (Macon, GA: Smyth & Helwys, 2006).

Reconsidering Goliath: An Iron Age I Philistine Chariot Warrior

The text of 1 Sam 17: 4-7 gives a detailed account of the arms and armor of the Philistine champion who battled David in the Elah Valley, a description unmatched for detail in any other biblical te...

‘Beware the Philistines’: Maude Petre's Theology of Doubt

‘Beware the Philistines’: Maude Petre's Theology of Doubt

Review of Mark McEntire and Joel Emerson, Raising Cain, Fleeing Egypt and Fighting Philistines: The Old Testament in Popular Music

Review of Mark McEntire and Joel Emerson, Raising Cain, Fleeing Egypt and Fighting Philistines: The Old Testament in Popular Music

Re: Can anyone help a Philistine?

<i>Re: Can anyone help a Philistine?</i>

The Philistine Controversy, edited by Dave Beech and John Roberts

The Philistine Controversy, edited by Dave Beech and John Roberts

Not Hellenes but Philistines? The Maccabees and Josephus defining the ‘Other’

Not Hellenes but Philistines? The Maccabees and Josephus defining the ‘Other’

Sampson among the Philistines.

Sampson among the Philistines.

Sampson among the Philistines.

Sampson among the Philistines.

Sampson among the Philistines.

Sampson among the Philistines.

Canaanites and Philistines

The Mycenaean pottery made at Ashdod and the other cities of the southern Levant in the twelfth century BCE suggests a significant immigration of South Greek speakers. The immigrants undoubtedly inspired the later legend that 'the Philisti nes' came from Caphtor. In fact, however, their nomenclature suggests that 'Philistines' or Palestinians were initially distinguished from the immigrant kerētîm or kaptorîm, and it is likely that the people called Palashtin were the Northwest Semitic speaking majority among whom the immigrant minority had settled. The name 'Canaan', never very popular, went out of vogue with the collapse of the Egyptian empire. In the Iron Age many inhabitants of what had once been Canaan preferred to be called 'Sons of Israel', while those who did not affiliate themselves to Israel preferred the name, 'Palestinians'. The Palestinian (Peleset) raiders who caused Ramesses III so much trouble, and against whom he led a punitive expedi tion, certainly came from the less civilized parts of Palestine, and may well have included men whose descendants would one day identify themselves as Israelites or Judahites.

The Philistines in Transition: A History from ca. 1000-730 BCE

The Philistines in Transition: A History from ca. 1000-730 BCE

The Auditors Are Here or the Philistines Are at the Gates

The Auditors Are Here or the Philistines Are at the Gates

The Date of the Settlement of the Philistines in Canaan

Cet article propose un compte-rendu des donnees archeologiques concernant l'habitat philistin des sites de Tell el-Far⊂ah et de Megiddo, puis compare ces donnees aux textes relatifs a l'histoire des Philistins (inscriptions et reliefs de Medinet Habou, conte de Ouenamon et references bibliques). L'interet de cette etude est double puisqu'elle permet de connaitre a la fois la date de la fin de la domination de l'Egypte dans le sud de Canaan et la date de l'installation des Philistins en Canaan