Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:50 AM, James Read  wrote:

> I have noted your comments but I think you still seem to be missing the
> point. You are approaching this as if there was a single question:
>
> 1) Where did the philistines come from?
>
> Whereas in reality there are two questions:
>
> 1) Where did the indigenous philistines come from?
> 2) Where did the invaders of the indigenous philistines come from?
>
> Only when you realise that these are two separate issues do the references
> to Philistines in Genesis become clear.

Hello James,

Don't you think before you go on to ask your questions you ought to ask if
there were indigenous Philistines separate from non indigenous Philistines?
Only if you conclude that there were two separate types of Philistines do
your questions make sense.

Yitzhak Sapir