The conditions for Philistine ethnogenesis
The origins of the Philistines have traditionally been understood within the context of a migration of “Sea Peoples” at the beginning of the Iron Age. However, excavations in other areas of the eastern Mediterranean have not yielded compelling evidence of a large-scale migration. We contend that mig...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Akademie
2020
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| In: |
Ägypten und Levante
Year: 2020, Volume: 30, Pages: 547-568 |
| Further subjects: | B
12th century BCE
B Ethnogenesis B Migration B Egypt B Rameses III B Sea Peoples B Philistines |
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| Summary: | The origins of the Philistines have traditionally been understood within the context of a migration of “Sea Peoples” at the beginning of the Iron Age. However, excavations in other areas of the eastern Mediterranean have not yielded compelling evidence of a large-scale migration. We contend that migration is still the best explanation of the evidence, but the effect on the archaeological record of the disparate responses of the hostcommunities into which the immigrants settled has been overlooked. Whereas those immigrants who settled in places such as Cilicia, the Amuq Plain, and Phoenicia encountered a decentralized political landscape into which they were quickly absorbed, the immigrants who landed in the southern Levant faced a still-powerful Egypt which was able to confine them. Within a restricted space, the immigrant Sea Peoples and indigenous Canaanites were galvanized into a unique Philistine ethnos. |
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| ISSN: | 1813-5145 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Ägypten und Levante
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1553/AEundL30s547 |