Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:54 PM, James Read wrote:
> Hi Yitzhak,
>
> I've been reading your response over and over again and the only things I
> can conclude from it are one of the following:
>
> 1) You hold the Philistines to be indigenous with no invasion ever occurring
> 2) You hold that the Philistines invaded and settled an uninhabited land
>
> Which of these two is it?

Hi, James.

Reading my response once would have been enough :)
I don't think that those are the necessarily only two possibilities nor am I
committed to any particular possibility.

How about you tell me, how do you figure that there were indigenous 
Philistines
separate from non indigenous Philistines (as apparently you do from your
questions)?

Yitzhak Sapir