I knew about this part “.. Mycenaeans took over from the Minoans. There was contact between Egypt and the Aegean no later than the late Middle Kingdom. ..”. I also knew there was a physical evidence problem regarding the “Sea Peoples”.
Didn’t know the whole “Sea Peoples” thing had been discarded.
Other then pottery is there any physical connection between the Myceneans & the Philistines? Similarity of tombs, temples etc.?
The Sea Peoples thing should be discarded, but plenty of academics still cling to it like a dingleberry to an ass hair.
The pottery of Philistia is indeed Greek or Greek influenced, while some of the personal names are Hurrian.
Giving Goliath His Due: New Archaeological Light on the Philistines [review] / Neal Bierling; foreword by Paul L. Maier.
review by Ralph E. Hendrix
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/auss/vol32/iss1/5/
https://www.amazon.com/Giving-Goliath-His-Due-Archaeological/dp/0801010187
https://www.amazon.com/Philistines-Giving-Goliath-Marco-Monographs/dp/0971468354
[for an earlier post, mostly for me]
http://www.minoancrete.com/platanos.htm