Evidence for the Sea Peoples from Biblical and Later Jewish Writing from Late Antiquity
The French Egyptologist Emmanuel de Rougé termed the sea-borne foreign invaders who invaded Egypt during the late Bronze Age on the basis of the Great Karnak inscription, “peuples de la mer” or Sea Peoples. Recently however, specialists, in the absence of more direct evidence of the use of this term...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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Vetus Testamentum
Year: 2017, Volume: 67, Issue: 2, Pages: 264-272 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Old Testament
/ Old Testament
/ Old Testament
/ Midrash Rabbah
/ Sea Peoples
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IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament HD Early Judaism KBL Near East and North Africa TC Pre-Christian history ; Ancient Near East |
Further subjects: | B
Philistines
Sea Peoples
Emmanuel de Rougé
Genesis
Chronicles
Masoretic Text
Septuagint
matres lectionis
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Summary: | The French Egyptologist Emmanuel de Rougé termed the sea-borne foreign invaders who invaded Egypt during the late Bronze Age on the basis of the Great Karnak inscription, “peuples de la mer” or Sea Peoples. Recently however, specialists, in the absence of more direct evidence of the use of this term in antiquity, have called into question its historical provenance and have even declared it a “modern term”. Ancient Jewish writings, by contrast, refer to several Peoples of the Sea which notably include the Philistines. Moreover, close examination of the orthography of biblical ethnonyms in the context of migratory sea passages in both the Masoretic text and the Septuagint demonstrates the existence of a previously undescribed productive genitive sea-borne indicator within the very fabric of the biblical text. |
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ISSN: | 1568-5330 |
Contains: | In: Vetus Testamentum
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685330-12341275 |