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The Philistines were native to Canaan. Their cities were Ashdod, Ekron, Ashkelon, Gath, and Gaza. Today they are called the "Palestinians". Along with the Syrians, they will conquer and punish Israel when the Messiah comes. Isaiah 9:12. See also Isaiah 11:14. Isaiah 14:29. "Rejoice not thou whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent".
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i posted similar info too.
Sorry I can't help. I went to BYU and UCLA and they both have good libraries.I actually tried that back in 1970. Then I went on a mission and never went back to Provo...got my degrees elsewhere, much, much, later.
....and since I live 627.4 miles from there now, and only ever pass through the town on the way to see my daughters in Logan, I don't think that the BYU library is an option. Mind you, I go to the UCLA library fairly frequently, and that's pretty good too, but I need a little help with this book, I think.
I was really hoping that you remembered something about it, if not the title, then the author or a keyword, so that I could look it up. I mean, really....I think I"d love to read that one!
This is factually incorrect on several points. The Philistines were not native to Canaan. They migrated to the Levant circa the 12th century BCE. The ancient Philistines ceased more than a millennium before the Arab conquest of the Levant. The myth that the current Arabs which claim to be “Palestinians” is precisely that, a myth. This modern myth is a completely modern creation by the “Palestinians” and is a contrivance.
In a word, no. Palestinians refer to the various groups that live in a region the was named Palestine by the Romans. The name Palestine was chosen by the Romans in a conscious attempt to dissociate it from Judea and Samaria after the Jewish revolts of the first and second centuries. The Jews that remained in the region did not intermarry in any great numbers with non-Jews. Jews have been living in Judea and Samaria continuously. They lived there for a millennium before the region was ever called Palestine.
You are equating the Greek word Palaistine and the Latin Palestine erroneously. While Herodotus referred to the region as Palaistine, the people who lived there then were the Jews and the Samaritans, and the land already had a name before he applied his own, Judea and Samaria. The land was called Judea and Samaria long before it was ever called Palaistine by Herodotus. The Samaritans were completely subjugated by the Hellenistic Seleucids, and did intermarry. However the Jews resisted, did not intermarry, and eventually reclaimed full autonomy, which lasted until it was absorbed into the Roman Empire with quasi-independence. Under the Romans the region was first referred to as Judea, not Palestine. For example, Herod the Great was called the King of Judea, not the King of Palestine. It was only after the Jews revolted that the Romans renamed the region. In part as an attempt to obliterate the Jewish connection with the land. Modern attempts to insist on referring to the land as Palestine instead of its prior name of Judea and Samaria are just more attempts to make the land “Juden Rein”.
