By Ann E. Killebrew, Gunnar Lehmann
The quest for the biblical Philistines, certainly one of old Israel's such a lot storied enemies, has lengthy intrigued either students and the general public. Archaeological and textual proof tested in its broader jap Mediterranean context finds that the Philistines, famous from biblical and extrabiblical texts, including different comparable teams of "Sea Peoples", performed a transformative function within the improvement of latest ethnic teams and polities that emerged from the ruins of the overdue Bronze Age empires. The essays during this booklet, representing contemporary study within the fields of archaeology, Bible, and background, reconsider the origins, id, fabric tradition, and impression of the Philistines and different Sea Peoples at the Iron Age cultures and peoples of the jap Mediterranean.
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He discusses the complex development of the ceramics, burials, and Mycenaean traditions in Miletus and the Dodecanese, independent of direct influences from the Greek Mainland. Southeastern Aegean material culture, which flourishes during the LH IIIC Middle phase, represents an individual stylistic development and distinct demographic trends. There are indications of a decline in the following LH IIIC Late period, trends that are still difficult to understand. ╇ Mopsos was, according to Greek myth, the legendary seer and founder of a number of cities in Asia Minor mentioned in Greek myth and was of unclear ethnic origin.
It should be noted that this study was a pioneering one using these techniques, and very few compositional databases of pottery were at hand. Accordingly, it was understood that this ware, appearing in the initial phase of the Iron I, reflects the manufacture of Mycenaean-like pottery by the newly arrived immigrants to Philistia, utilizing knowledge brought from their homeland: We have already seen that the two groups of Tel Ashdod wares (Philistine and MycIIIC1) match each other in chemical profile as well as can be expected.
Singer argues in his chapter for the historicity of the accounts, dating them to Iron Age I through Davidic periods. This view is not only supported by archaeological discoveries at the Philistine “pentapolis cities,” but also by epigraphic finds in Cilicia and Syria, especially from Karatepe, Çineköy, and Arsuz/Rhosus (Çambel 1999; Tekoğlu and Lemaire 2000; Dinçol and Dinçol forthcoming), suggesting that the Homeric traditions of Aegean migrations to the region do reflect memories of actual historical processes.