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Scholars say Philistine genes help solve biblical mystery
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| Posted: Jul 3, 2019 / 02:13 PM EDT / Updated: Jul 3, 2019 / 02:21 PM EDT
| by: ILAN BEN ZION
Posted on 07/03/2019 1:16:54 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: SunkenCiv
PinGGG!..................
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posted on
07/03/2019 1:17:21 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Red Badger
Could be Minoans...................
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posted on
07/03/2019 1:18:31 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Red Badger
“I am a Philistinian and I demand my ancestral land back! It belonged to my people long before the displaced Jordanians showed up.”
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posted on
07/03/2019 1:22:14 PM PDT
by
Two Kids' Dad
(((( Wake me when a prominent democrat actually gets prosecuted. ))))
To: Two Kids' Dad
All the ‘original’ Philistines eventually converted to Judaism and melded into the Jewish people................
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posted on
07/03/2019 1:24:42 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
07/03/2019 1:26:18 PM PDT
by
Dr. Ursus
To: Red Badger
Exactly. Minoan refugees from the Thera volcano.
To: Dr. Ursus
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posted on
07/03/2019 1:30:53 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: crusher2013
Exactly. Minoan refugees from the Thera volcano.Either that or the losing side of the Trojan War (or the Hittites?), or any combination of the above.
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posted on
07/03/2019 1:34:36 PM PDT
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
07/03/2019 1:36:58 PM PDT
by
smvoice
(I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBONndering)
To: Dr. Ursus
The Phoenicians were sea people who planted the colony which became the City State of Carthage about 800 BC. I had always assumed they were a branch of the Philistine Tree.
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posted on
07/03/2019 1:38:28 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
To: Red Badger
Philistine in Hebrew means “invaders”.
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posted on
07/03/2019 1:46:27 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
To: SkyDancer
Well, they did!............😀
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posted on
07/03/2019 1:51:00 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Vigilanteman
The Phoenicians were Semitic-speakers...the Philistines originally would have spoken a different language but seem to have lost it after settling in Philistia. The term Phoenicians was the Greek name for the people the Israelites called Canaanites.
The "Peleset" of Egyptian texts mentioning the Sea Peoples are generally thought to be the Philistines.
There was a pre-Greek population in Greece called Pelasgians about which not much is known. One scholar argued that Pelasgians = Philistines but I don't think anyone else has endorsed that view.
What about King David's Cherethites and Pelethites? When will someone find some of their DNA?
To: Red Badger
Yep. Lots of findings over the years suggesting links to Crete and other European Mediterranean roots.
To: Red Badger
I wonder what the Philistines religion was? Were they Baal worshipers or maybe like the Greeks with their Olympian Gods?
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posted on
07/03/2019 1:58:15 PM PDT
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yarddog
To: Verginius Rufus
Interesting stuff. The more separate peoples stay together in one location, the more blended their genetic DNA becomes The Spanish were in the Americas a mere century longer than the English (fall of Mexico City, 1521— landing at Plymouth Rock, 1620) but their DNA is far more blended with Native and African DNA than descendants of their counterparts of primarily English ancestry . . . in a mere century, less than 1.7% of recorded human history.
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posted on
07/03/2019 2:03:31 PM PDT
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Vigilanteman
(The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
To: Red Badger
“possibly because of a cataclysmic intersection of climate change and man-made disasters”
Damn SUV’s nearly killed us off
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posted on
07/03/2019 2:04:35 PM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
To: yarddog
The Philistines worshipped Dagon..........
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posted on
07/03/2019 2:07:59 PM PDT
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Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: yarddog
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posted on
07/03/2019 2:09:48 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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