Aren Maeir | New Light on the Biblical Philistines: Recent Study on the Frenemies of Ancient Israel

Aren M. Maeir, Professor, The Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Bar-Ilan University and Director, The Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project, The Institute of Archaeology
The Philistines are well-known from biblical texts as one of the main adversaries of the ancient Israelites. At the same time, the biblical narrative indicates that other types of interactions also were the norm. Recent excavations in Philistia, and in particular those at Tell es-Safi, biblical Gath of the Philistines, hometown of Goliath, have provided exciting evidence of the very complex interaction between these two cultures, revealing the multi-layered facets of what could be termed a Frenemy relationship between the Philistines and Israelites. In addition, recent finds have very much changed our understandingof who the Philistines were, where they came from, and how their culture formed, transformed, and eventually disappeared. These topics will be addressed in this lecture.
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[@TT3TT3]

Thanks for this - thanks for youtube. I can sit here in mountains sipping my soup and learn. I am grateful.

[@ISAC_UChicago]

+inurufu Glad to read it!

[@annalisette5897]

Me too! Just about exactly what you have written.

[@storfrassin]

Blessings and thank you from Tuovi in Finland!

[@rakkassan2187]

Ibid, in the Rockies. Great stuff.

[@scrummyvision]

looking at the flatiron mountains in CO right now! great video, thanks!

[@s.kertanguy8433]

If in a thousand years someone find bones of cats ands dogs in my garden, I better let a note next to the bones that I did not eat them , but just buried them with love.

[@scienceexplains302]

S. Kertanguy That should be easy to detect. When we eat an animal with bones, we tear apart the skeleton

[@jessetheseal]

@@scienceexplains302 yes, and there are usually knife marks on the bones. (Something I learned on time team). That said they may think Kertanguy treated them as gods and it was ritual deposition.

[@s.kertanguy8433]

Jesse Morrow As gods no, I have only one, but as different children of the family, our cats had all happy long lives within the family, most of them lived between 18 and 20 years, only one died young (5y) because he went to play on the road ( forbidden, but you know cats also don't listen sometimes) that poor one met a car. :( .

[@urielprince12]

an engraving would work! paper usually decays over time

[@greglogan7706]

Perhaps you simply sacrifice them whole to your deity....🤔🤔

[@layna8924]

to add, the humour in the lecture, makes it easy to listen to...make it a usual addition...I'm sure folks will be very pleased...;) L.

[@mhmeekk3003]

Layna8 blessed!

[@danielash1704]

Most enlightening and to the point of actually being able to interpret the scripts is fantastic. ❤love honor and respect for all people in this world.

[@johnrohde5510]

Thank you for a brilliant presentation.

[@Emcee_Squared]

Fantastic lecture! Biblical archaeology is always fascinating and one need not be religious at all to appreciate it.

[@lieferic9]

Archaeology and religion are cousins.

[@thecentralscrutinizerr]

@@lieferic9 You couldn't be more wrong. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYWmh5tqeL2sn5I

[@sangwaraumo]

@@lieferic9 Because they both focus on dead, old stuff? :D

[@lieferic9]

@@sangwaraumo Yes and furthermore because ancient artifacts have a mystical appeal that supports religion.

[@sangwaraumo]

@@lieferic9 Hmmm... There are some cases when archeology shows scripture to be wrong.

[@RealLifeWorthLiving]

Thank you for the lecture. It was very insightful.

[@ProgPiglet]

bluddy brilliant lecture. really brings some passages from the old testament to light

[@S.R.M.]

Yeah, but Mr. Maeir's doubt of the truth of the Bible is troubling.

[@MrAlcidas]

Excellent and insightful lecture!

[@arenmaeir]

Thanks!

[@eirikus]

Great lecture. Thank you very much! Not too often I see scholarly lectures being given with burning interest!

[@arenmaeir]

Thanks!

[@tobystewart4403]

Great work by your team, and a fine presentation.

[@cecileroy557]

Regarding the ...hmmm... gold hemorrhoid thingies, if you've ever suffered from hemorrhoids (the external type) they hurt much less if you push them "back in from whence they came ". This task can be accomplished using your finger BUT I think, if I were a Philistine, I would've preferred using one of those "thingies". 😉

[@indribudiman4506]

Great presentation, Shalom.

[@cepheidflash8063]

"A berserk Philistine warlord will come after you!" LOL priceless, what a great presentation.

[@moshekoolik6038]

Z Ze

[@clydecessna737]

During the Gulf War I volunteered to work on a Kibbutz and was assigned to Gat. Tel Gat is at the bottom of the hill where the Kibbutz is located. I have tilled the fields where Goliath walked.

[@doyouknoworjustbelieve6694]

There was no Goliath

[@ProgPiglet]

@@doyouknoworjustbelieve6694 do you know or just believe there was no goliath?

[@andrewfindlay7594]

@@ProgPiglet 😅😅

[@1amjapan]

Very cool.

[@PoliticalFuturism]

Awesome presentation!

[@shimac1]

Thank you! That was excellent!

[@cecileroy557]

Excellent lecture!!! This is, pretty much, the first lecture I've been to watch from start to finish because 1. the lecturer is very, very good & not boring for even a minute 2. both the video and the sound are very well done! With most filmed lectures it sounds like the lecturer is mumbling... from another room. 😉

[@free_gold4467]

Excellent lecture.

[@PropensityVisualized]

Circular fire pits are a matter of practicality if one is living somewhere where the winds shift frequently and unexpectedly- like mountainous islands. In fact in the islands around Greece we also see fruits and vegetables lovingly grown in a circle rather than allowing them to grow upright. It is a protective measure against the wind. Mongol Yurts are another example.

[@faustinae3927]

Awesome 👏🏼 thank you.

[@TheWinterShadow]

A very good lecture.

[@gladyskravitzjr825]

I loved this lecture

[@ahappyimago]

Very informative thank you

[@tobigforyou]

Really bright guy. Thanks for uploading this.

[@ISAC_UChicago]

+tobigforyou Glad you enjoyed it!

[@nickburningham5143]

A very interesting lecture. I learned a great deal. A small nit-picking detail - nutmeg might have reached the Levant via Sri Lanka, but it can only have come from eastern Indonesia.

[@michaelmahoney1205]

Connecticut the nutmeg state USA

[@timbattle4035]

That was great! Explained a lot for me biblically as well as scientifically. 👏👏👏

[@michaelmoser4537]

at 40:50-42:10 Prof. Maeir says that they found residues of cinnamon and nutmeg from Sri Lanka (at around 900BC-1000BC - Iron age IIa); this would mean that long distance trade did not stop with the bronze age collapse. Interesting if long distance trade during the iron age was still quite as important as during the bronze age.

[@akronymus]

I suppose that political structures changed seriously on a local base (places with the new 'industry' became more important and influential), but the big structures of trade routes were not suffering essentially - in fact, iron brought new goods and new wealthy customers.

[@michaelmoser4537]

akronymus And i assumed that the iron age was about substituting iron for bronze - iron would not require tin (this had to be brought in from far away places), therefore trade over long distances would not be quite as important..

[@akronymus]

Michael Moser Good point about the tin. May be the side-effects (trading silk, spices, ...) were lucrative enough to keep the thing going. On the other hand, it must have taken a lot of years to completely substitute bronze. Early iron makers couldn't cover the demand on metal things.

[@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164]

The Bronze Age collapse didn't effect India or China, they still traveled the Silk Road for trade. The trading helped rebuild the civilizations that had collapsed.

[@JohnPap21]

@@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 Its not the Indians and Chinese who trading with the Greeks, its the Greeks who going there. Ancient Chinese never traveled beyond Gobi desert, Greeks expand the trade settlements close to China and India.

[@shimac1]

Thank you!

[@s.kertanguy8433]

It is sad we don't see where you are pointing with your laser on the video, this conference is so interesting .Thank you.

[@isabellalive5370]

I loved you in that thing I saw you in!! But seriously you were under a tent and the other guy travels to sights in the Torah You were humble but well spoken and entertaining just like now Shalom.

[@saltech3444]

I always was fascinated that the name "Goliath" might be the same as the Greek name "Kalliades".

[@georgyzhukov6409]

very much so

[@AntiQris]

I’m looking at the migration (thanks to Assyrians) of the Indus Valley under cooperation with the “greeks”… an elderly woman that came from germany ww1 to US and when she said the word “Greek” it was in a sentence that was referring to war and the people who fought wars. I asked if she meant the people from Greece and she said “Greek” means someone who was “for war” or someone who was a mercenary. I found that interesting. Could Goliath be gilead?

[@adamdilem941]

Ghul in Arabic means A Monster or a Giant. It's Semitic

[@kinezokyprios]

You must consider the Greek word "ογκόλιθος" (ogolithos) meaning huge rock. Although we will never know this guy's name, to my Greek ear Goliath is a poor transliteration of the term Ogolithos (which could not sound much different in Mycenaean Greek than it would today), that Jews tried to do. They probably were listening Goliath's mates calling him Ogolithos, implying he is the huge rock protecting them, their champion, but Jews thought it is his name. Philistines were Mycenaean Greeks, either from the tribe of Pelasgians or the citizen of Pylos, just like all the Sea Peoples. It is the Odyssey that describes the social framework and the actions of the Sea Peoples. After a 20 year war against the Hittite empire and while raiding all Hittite allies and Egypt, they returned home. But the social upheaval and revolution overthrew the ruling class and thousands of war veterans with many ships and fully equipped for war were forced to take their families and seek new lands. They did succeed to colonize Asia Minor, Cyprus and the Libyan coast, but failed in Egypt and only managed to settle in Palestine for a few centuries. In Greek history it is called the First Greek Colonisation.

[@adamdilem941]

@@kinezokyprios Philistines were Canaanites who spoke a Semitic Canaanite language. The archaeology evidence this. There is no archaeological trace of Greek language in the land of Canaan before Alexander's invasion. Which happened 700 years after king David.

[@storfrassin]

Thank you for a interesting lecture! Shalom

[@beebee242]

@18:04 The Palestinian city was not abandoned in 1948. The people were expelled. They were driven/forced out. Big difference.

[@beebee242]

Suryaya Music absolutely. I am a Palestinian Christian. We are no different then our Palestinian Muslim brethren who get massacred and driven out of our lands. Why is it ok for Palestinians to be replaced and erased?

[@OldHeathen1963]

​@@beebee242Yes, it's disgusting. I hate my country is supporting Fascism and Genocide! 😡🤡

[@appaloosa42]

Nope. The powermongers among them lied saying the Jews would exterminate them if they didnt leave. ( and if they didnt leave they were terrorized by their own leaders.)

[@garyjaensch7143]

The new light needs to be put on Dominique goerlitz discovery of iron plate and magnetite traces in the giza pyramid showing iron iron was in use as the Bible says in Genesis 4:22, before the flood, when you consider Cambridge University studies show that Australian Aborigines languages are only 4000 years old , it is worth watching Kurt Wises video in depth explanation of Noah’s flood, can you make any sense of how an earthquake could take millions of years to cross America?

[@louiscervantez1639]

Excellent

[@MistaEtinosa]

How could I have woken up to this on a business day to watch over an hour video... Thjs js really beautiful, you totally enlightened me on the Phillitia and the present day Palenstine. I feel Northern Israel whose capital city was Samaria are major owner of the present day Palestine with load of Arab influx many years ago... In summary, the Biblical story of the enmity between the Jews and the Israelites remains till date which does not change their blood relations are siblings. This is sad really.

[@wernercaspary7159]

Excellent lecture. I always thought that the Sea People were from Ancient Greece, the Minoan or the Mycenean cultures. The professor confirmed my ideas about this ancient culture. I sense a lot of inter cultural exchange between the ancient cultural groups in the Levant. This probably had an impact in religion, agriculture, food, writing, even clothing. Greetings from Germany...🍺

[@chiseldrock]

wow such leaps of faith

[@user-sw5bq3ek8q]

in 33.00 the story of Samson didn't happen in a phiilistine temple, and the phiilistine temple are not the only temples to have two pillars infront of the enterens. actually phenishian, greek, egyptian, even jewish temples had two pillars infront of the enterens

[@37Dionysos]

42:00---Others have remarked also that the Philistines didn't have a very robust maritime culture. But they came by sea to build Palestine, and their ongoing links with Crete and elsewhere simply had to be supported by ships, trade and contacts. We'll probably never find any Philistine maritime remains but we can hope for a sunken ship!

[@37Dionysos]

Disagree and I return the charge. Study the fine archaeo-details in Oren, ed., 'Sea Peoples & Their World,' in Yasur-Landau's latest 'Philistines & Aegean Migration,' in L. Hitchcock's many new works; plus new digs at Gath, Ekron, Tel Qasile just for ex's. Philistines had elements of many tribes, and these shared very similar traits/practices from north to south places. They didn't hoist a flag/rule by armies/write history, and didn't miss any of it. Their ships and their clear Aegean/Minoan ancestors' boats were all they needed to be.

[@moodist1er]

If they do find ships, this guy will explain how they're proof of Israelites existence.

[@dovbarleib3256]

Aahhh, but Genesis records that Philistines lived on Wadi Gerar near Gaza at the time of Avraham, long before the Late Bronze Age Collapse. And at the time of the Exodus, they already lived in the SW Coastal Plain, and are listed as one of the main obstacles for Moses leading Israel out of Egypt by way of a Coastal road.

[@aspektx]

If your evidence is just the Bible then that may be why you and Maier differ. While he appreciates the Hebrew scriptures, like most scholars he does not accept its contents to be accurate most of the time. Maier's approach is an historical and archeological approach. Not a faith based one.

[@valeriehutchinson863]

@@aspektx Yet the jews base their promised land off of scriptures. You make no sense and talk out of both sides of your mouth.

[@davejames885]

Why was it assumed previously that there was no trade with Asia? There's examples of Sumerian cylinder seals with both Sumerian and Indus script.

[@borisviolin633]

And even now, 5k years later we are still trading and producing them😀

[@faisalal-mutairi5148]

Tell el safi wasn’t “abandoned” as so much as the residents were “expelled”in what what even Israeli historians call an “ethnic cleansing”

[@lapicciano]

If there was 800,000 Palestinian refugees in 1948, now to date, there's over 3 million, one has to Observe how, ISRAEL REALLY SUCKS, AT, ETHNIC CLEANSING 😂

[@w.bloodgietersinstandhoudi1110]

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[@diggydice9041]

As usual I'm late to this party but it's just as incredible now..... after the "cocaine-mummy's" shows of years past this just further proves we all shared w/ one another. We're more related to each other than we realize....? peace

[@mnomadvfx]

In this case the inter relations is more expected because of much closer proximity. It's only because of biblical bias that they did not expect to find Canaanite artifacts in Phillistinian sites, but at least they admit their mistake and embrace the new perspective.

[@diggydice9041]

@@mnomadvfx ~ I'm not an expert but didn't they share & fight over the same lands ? Even if they'd never fought their stuff would be mixed if by trading alone but they fought for a millennia & the winner got to take the women so dna was shared as well....... The "bias" you speak of is some sort of wishful ideology based on pride? The whole subject is fascinating to me ~ thanks for the share

[@dianemottram3060]

Very informative and refreshing to the mind. What is incredible is that the God of Israel established a relationship as a living God to His people in a land surrounded by mysterious cults and became a light to the Gentiles. Wonder of wonder miracle of miracles.

[@chuckschillingvideos]

Shouldn't the archaeological evidence of the Philistines/Sea Peoples reflect their origin? Shouldn't the pottery, building style, etc. be closely similar to late Bronze age artifacts found in their original locations? This is why none of the stories or explanations make sense to me - because the archaeologists have discovered numerous artifacts which they attribute to the Philistines/Sea Peoples, but they never seem to be able to trace back to the prevailing styles of the locations from which it is claimed that the Philistines/Sea Peoples abandoned to travel to the Levant. This connection never seems to be made.

[@TheEudaemonicPlague]

You should watch the video before making claims.

[@AntiQris]

Do you have to be educated to attend your digs? I am a seer without formal training and thing I could be of great service to digs of such topic.

[@rajanagalaut2647]

Nutmeg didn't come from Sri Lanka but from even further, from Manuka, Ternate & Bandar Islands of what is now Indonesia

[@GlobalAgenda2024]

How funny it is for someone who wandered all over the world to come back to talk about the history of a land he heard about in manuscripts that also traveled all over the earth and, by coincidence, were neither damaged nor distorted!!! Academically, this is like a children's bedtime story

[@rosemcguinn5301]

What if that jerusalem jar was not "sent" to the Philistines, but was...well...purloined, stolen, swiped from some other Israelite territory? As for the seed system, isn't there a grain storage system in Egypt from approx Joseph's time?

[@RonJohn63]

There's a *story* about a grain storage system in Egypt from approx Joseph's time.

[@mnomadvfx]

As far as I am aware the Joseph whose presence is attested from seals in Avaris would have been dead and gone centuries before the Phillistines turned up on the shores of Canaan. For that matter the Hyksos were exiled centuries earlier than that time also.

[@rosemcguinn5301]

@@mnomadvfx Isn't it possible for the good ideas of a deceased person to be put to use for a long while, even centuries, beyond that person's demise?

[@nightvisiongoggles]

@@rosemcguinn5301 Indeed, and in Biblical accounts the bronze serpent from Moses' time survived up until Hezekiah, who ordered it destroyed because people were worshipping it. Unlike us, ancient people valued crafted items since they took time to produce. It's definitely within possibility that the Israelite jar may not be a gift but a loot, or trade goods.

[@RonJohn63]

42:05 How could you imagine that *anyone* who lives on the Mediterranean coast near Egypt could be "closed in" and "lose contact with the outer world"? *That makes no sense.*

[@RonJohn63]

belinskii, or -- like the Israelites -- the Philistines were conquered by the Assyrians and assimilated. If they didn't have as strong a national identity, their culture would have died out like so many others.

[@ffiftysixx]

he's referring to the collapse of the general 'globalization' that had happened 100 years earlier between the two periods. It's a big thing, one of the other lectures deals with it specifically, check it out.

[@maxben3391]

Bronze Age collapse. The Egyptians name the Philistines (or a tribe with a similar name) as one of the groups that came by boats to raid and immigrate into the near east. Post-collapse, new cities stayed away from the sea for protection and often groups became isolated as global trade died down and a lot of knowledge was lost.

[@jamesbinns8528]

@@3000_Year_Old_Man Egyptian contact was mentioned.

[@Cooliofamily]

The Victor's write the history books.... except in the case of israel

[@Benniabi]

horns and double columns in temples made me think of minoans immediately

[@RutgerVos]

Me too.

[@rosemcguinn5301]

The Bible mentions "the horns of the altar" in the OT. Lev 4:18

[@mnomadvfx]

Hardly surprising, the Minoans were well known to have been in contact with ancient Canaan from which the Judean and Israelite cultures evolved from.

[@ioanniskapos6323]

Excellent presentation. English historian Wells suggests that the Philistines arrived in the Middle East mainly from the island of Crete, Greece.

[@s.kertanguy8433]

How do you find out that some people left or died if you don't find their tombs or their bones anywhere ?

[@faustinae3927]

Now you’re thinking,and that is not allowed 🚫 😄👁👍

[@JRandallS]

There are some other lectures on excavations of the other cities of the Philistines. The consensus seems to point to a Greek origin. There is also an interesting book that ties it together called something like "The world ended in 1177 B.C." The very interesting connection is that their was a period of great disruption in the eastern Mediterranean at this time. Coastal cities were raided and ancient trade routes disrupted. The theory put forth is that the Philistines (and other invaders) were connected to the Trojan war. They were cultural Greeks who raided the coasts for supplies for the war, and also those who were driven out by those raids. At the end of the war the fleet was scattered by a storm. Different groups of these peoples made war on the Egyptians and others including Crete. Some settled in this area of Israel and founded the five cities of the Philistines. It is now thought that their is a connection between a people living in the northwestern part of Ancient Greece and the Philistines, and their ancient name has become what we now see as Philistine. So the real ancient homeland of the Philistines is probably in modern Albania.

[@moodist1er]

Yeah, some ships of soldiers stopped to build 5 cities. I think your understanding of logistics is weird.

[@stephenconey4841]

I enjoyed this, but wish that he would pay better attention to the biblical text if he is going to speak about it. The claim is not that King David destroyed Gath, but that he "took control of" it (2 Sam 8:1), and Gath is not even named. I'm also surprised that he is surprised about a vessel from Jerusalem being dedicated at a Philistine cult centar, since just this situation is described in 2 Kings 1:2.

[@arenmaeir]

I Chron 18:1...

[@stephenconey4841]

@@arenmaeir Yes, I hadn't spotted the Chronicles reference which names Gath. In any case, my main issue with this really interesting presentation is that there is plenty of room in the evidence, as presented, for both options - either that David did not, in fact, subdue the Philistines, or that he defeated them in the field and they yielded to his overlordship because they could not protect their agricultural land and non-fortified settlements, accepting an Israelite garrison as part of the deal , which is what is implied by a close reading of the text. This would be similar to the situation King Saul was in (1 Sam. 13:3). Again, thanks for the correction.

[@arenmaeir]

@@stephenconey4841 While there is a far off possibility that David subdued the Philistines, all the archaeological evidence from Gath points to that the city was large and prosperous, fortified and well connected, and in fact the largest city in the entire southern Levant, from the 11th thru to the late 9th cent BCE, when Hazael captured it. There is no sign of and lowering of its status in the late 11th and early 10th cent BCE, in fact just the opposite. So, it would appear that the archaeological evidence does not support a scenario that David conquered or subdued Gath. Best

[@stephenconey4841]

@@arenmaeir What would have changed at Gath, given the biblical scenario? The Philistines still have the same access to international trade and other sources of wealth. Gath would lose a fraction of its wealth annually for a few decades in the form of tribute. This is not the kind of thing that shows up in the archaeological record except through inscriptions or written accounts. If you’d asked me what I would expect to find, archaeologically, at Gath, given what’s written in Samuel and Chronicles, I would have said I expect nothing. I'm saying that, while the evidence doesn't prove or even particularly support the biblical picture, it doesn’t exclude it either. Also, you hinted at something that interests me. A surface reading of the Bible gives the impression that the Philistines were THE arch-enemies of Israel, but really there were only about three generations where they were in conflict as they struggled for control of the Shephela as new powers in the region. It just happens that that period is when we have the Book of Samuel plus the farce that is Samson’s story. Reading between the lines, there seems to have been relatively little conflict between the two nations over the many centuries that they were neighbors. David's royal retinue included a considerable body of Philistines (2 Sam. 15:18). It would be interesting if you unearth more evidence of commerce and neighborly relations between the two nations. May I ask a question, since I have your attention. What is a good estimate of the total Philistine population at the height of their prosperity? My info from the early 90s says 30,000, but that must be revised upward with this new evidence. Thank you again for your valuable work in this field.

[@annebradley6086]

I am puzzled. This lecture covers time period of about 1200 BC to 586 AC but in a prior video, the Phillistines existed about 200 yrs, 1300 BC to 1100 BC he said.

[@kenciolek843]

46:30 , so what are those ?

[@ian_b]

They haven't found Goliath's cereal bowl because I've got it. I've also got Og Of Bashan's morning coffee mug. It's f***ing huge.

[@greglogan7706]

😄😄

[@stevenwebbjr7639]

No mention of Mizraim or Egypt

[@doyouknoworjustbelieve6694]

Wow- The Palestinian village was ‘abandoned’ in 1948.

[@jackdonith]

Mysteriously!

[@juditharnett3356]

Lots of Arabs left the area when Israel became a state in 1948. For those who don't know, the Jews did not just force Arabs out and "take over" Arab property. Most Arabs in the area at the time were nomads, so they might have just stopped using the site. Also, Arabs were not forced out at all. They were allowed to stay, and Jews paid for any property they moved into. Still today, if a Jewish family is living on property they purchased, and an Arab comes forward with a deed that proves they never sold the property (Someone may have illegal sold it, as most Arabs who owned property in Israel lived somewhere else), the Jewish family has to either move, or buy the property again. And no, I am not Jewish, but these facts are well documented.

[@johnmonk9297]

The Jews treat the Palestinians better than theircso called friend nations. With out the Jews many of them wouldn't have work. Because it's the Jewish industry that creates jobs. You need to study and stop believing main stream media lives. Israel's enemies us cthe Palestinians to justify their attack's on Israel. Yet will not let the Palestinians into their countries like we take in refugees. But the Palestinians refused Israel's help in 48 thinking their fellow Arabs would defeat israel. that kinda stupidity sums up what you get for believing in false gods

[@aspektx]

@@juditharnett3356 I've seen photos that tell a very different story.

[@tiggero6690]

@@johnmonk9297 Yes of course. Work sets you free. Like that inscription over the gates of Auschwitz no?

[@dickhamilton3517]

yeah, the village of Tell es-Safi was 'abandoned' in 1948... when the Israeli forces chased all the people out

[@rafamcnamara4755]

+Dick Hamilton I thought that was an abusively tame wording...

[@ian_b]

+rafa mcnamara It's a neutral wording. He's not there to give a lecture on recent politics and ethics.

[@dickhamilton3517]

+jaxxstraw I don't agree. 'was abandoned' is a past-tense verb, an action that was taken (reputedly). 'is abandoned', in contrast, uses the adjectival form, and is neutral, simply describing state of affairs, a circumstance.

[@maracohen5930]

And it was abandoned. Why is it no one has figured out that very few Arabs in the area ever ran into an Israeli Soldier during 1947-1949. There just weren't that many Israeli Soldiers, and they were fighting for their, and their People's lives against the 5 invading Arab League Armies, and the Mufti's Butchers. Just because Arabs in the Area have now adopted the old Latin name (a Roman Provincial name, derived from the People this lecture is about-but who had disappeared millenia prior.), the Mandate Jews discarded this name upon becoming sovereign, and the 1960's Arabs picked it up, dusted off and chose to call themselves. So only a total ignoramus with an agenda would even bother to bring Arabs up in relationship to this lecture.

[@ian_b]

mara cohen It's Palestine on all the maps from history up to the period you're discussing. We all have bad stuff in our history, every nation. Israel needs to be honest about the taking of the land and ethnic cleansing it undertook afterwards. The Jews in Palestine are mostly recent immigrants who took the land by force. That is just a fact.

[@phearlesspharaoh3697]

Hey you mentioned Uncle Ramses… THANKS! 😂🤓

[@RH-vl2wy]

Various groups affected from lack of trade from the Bronze Age. The transition too the Iron Age even affects groups in the Black Sea.....

[@7hilladelphia]

Anyone who starts by saying, "The truth is:" has lost me.

[@theobolt250]

For me it's a bit longwinded (I have a short attention span, sorry) but all in all it was delightful. Insightful too. Many thanks.

[@jeradclark8533]

I guess this all goes back to the bronze age collapse. Lots of scholars have posited earthquakes as a factor for this. In Hebrew myth god controls earthquakes, maybe that has some sort of allegorical reference to the walls of Jericho. Not that specific site but walls crashing down on general. Maybe. This is all so vague.

[@mhmeekk3003]

"Hebrew myth" Fail, keep your atheist mythology to yourself.

[@histguy101]

Jericho's walls did collapse. They've been excavated.

[@daianmata5945]

Torah food laws are forever !

[@s.kertanguy8433]

Am I the only one who never saw any laser pointed to the map ? :) I keep trying to catch it when the word " here" is pronounced, but w/ o any success.

[@conniead5206]

I may get a brief glimpse of a laser dot during one video presentation every couple of years. Laser pointers are after my time so I don’t know if people attending seminars see them either. Yardsticks or pointer sticks seem to be a lot better than the lasers in the long run.

[@s.kertanguy8433]

@@conniead5206 That was not a critic, I loved the presentation, I watched it 3 times, but just wondering if I was only me as none in the assistance seemed to have any problem understanding where exactly, it was meant ;) I also thought it might be that live it worked but was not visible enough with the lights on a video, that is why I asked. Thank you. More, more please.

[@onbedoeldekut1515]

If only Da Vinci knew about the plaster, he might have been able to finish his frescoes!

[@WhenceRed]

54:00 + bravo, sir, for mentioning what the wroter of history wanted us to think ... the original home of the philistines, ... what about the original home of US ALL? it's a mixed bag. Moral Philosophy may succeed where Philology and Physicians Fail: Moral Philosophy (a kind of) Cuts where ethical philosophy smears. Both are Useful.

[@WhenceRed]

55:50 + ... ...dang

[@gariusjarfar1341]

Risen again with technology, it's time to reasses our mythology.

[@zed1207]

No. More than ever thanks to our studies of this region, no.

[@gariusjarfar1341]

@@zed1207 The sea people, 300 years before the collapse of the Minoans, somehow I can't see a separation between this story. Somewhere in here is missing part of history.

[@gariusjarfar1341]

David fort Goliath a giant, earlier scouts reported the cainanites were giants, sons of the Elohim and daughters of man. Risen again is humanity in this mystery.

[@mnomadvfx]

@@gariusjarfar1341 "The sea people, 300 years before the collapse of the Minoans" Wrong way around. The Minoan collapse from the Theran eruption was about 300 years before the Sea Peoples went on their merry destructive way around the Mediterranean. Quite possibly the Phillistines represented an early conglomerate of the diminished Minoans and the Mycenae - it would certainly explain the ferocity of the band combined with their naval superiority. The Minoan sea faring capabilities and the Mycenaean war lords capabilities in fighting would have made a frightening combination likely never seen before in history at the time - like pitting disordered tribal war parties against ancient Roman legions.

[@mnomadvfx]

@@gariusjarfar1341 History and myth has a tendency to distort basic facts. Especially when the author needs his people to save face. Probably because the Canaanites and Phillistines were actually smaller than the Israelites ironically.

[@frankborger3224]

Seren means one of the five lords; Also, axle.

[@njweatherwarfare1132]

Must look at LAKE CROWLEY PILLARS AND ARCHES near Mammoth, CA looks like hydraulic plaster or cement

[@TheRealTomahawk]

Is there a difference between the Phoenicians and the philistines? The ancient Greeks start at the Levant and with Japheth and Javan. I guess they took on the Babylonian Sumerian Canaanite religion, but somewhere around Aegenor, Belus, Danaaus, and Aegyptus their religions synchronized. Baal came from The watchers from Hermon to Uruk to Egypt to Crete to Greece, Anatolia, India, Rome, and on and on

[@huarwe8797]

Years later looks like we are looking at a world wide culture destroyed by a massive flood.. keep digging 🙏❤️

[@andriesscheper2022]

A volcanic disaster seems more likely.

[@huarwe8797]

@@andriesscheper2022 or both

[@gariusjarfar1341]

At this time the Minoans were looking for new land in their settlements around the Levant, that were settled by people from central Eurpoe 22 thousand years before.

[@michielvdvlies3315]

what about Psalm 83?

[@chazayah5985]

You know something

[@jasonlampione5459]

It's funny, because scriptures mentions a body of water to the East of Jerusalem NOT the West, so you have to wonder, are these maps accurate? No, they're not!

[@OldHeathen1963]

Maps? In the Bible? I would trust man's knowledge today, over man's knowledge 2000 yrs ago. Yes, I know maps were added later....

[@s.kertanguy8433]

How do you know they did not simply bury theirs dead dogs ? Did you find them in the plates ?

[@509Gman]

S. Kertanguy butchering marks on bones.

[@gruboniell4189]

Wasn’t there a ahyawan man terrorising the hittites western coast at that time written in tablets in Turkey? May he have fled to philastine?

[@gruboniell4189]

Sorry for the spelling 🥺

[@spemtube]

the secret is in the water.

[@djd4047]

You mean the truth.

[@daleknight777]

What is the difference between isralits and judaits

[@laythadrian5705]

How do you make gold from hemorrhoids?

[@appaloosa42]

Ask a proctologist!

[@mdb1239]

Why didn't he mention that the Bible mentions Abraham and the Philistines?

[@daianmata5945]

2, and 3rd. Churches, suffered the Most. Death everywhere !

[@gariusjarfar1341]

At least 2 epocs to see before our history. The megolithic and before, the poligonal to explain before our confused attempt in vain to explain our plain of reality.

[@messiniamtl]

Wow really, the name Philistine was given by the Greeks to a group of people that lived there long before the Greeks arrival. The name Philistine stands for the land of the friends. have a nice one

[@ezzovonachalm7534]

Canaan did NOT lye on the territory of Israel. Israelites came and tried to conquer Canaan,but miserably failed until the 1968 war. Shalom .

[@hagaibinsealtiel3745]

Are you a Palestinian ? No wonder you want to change the Torah the Bible And the Quran which ALL SAY that Israel belongs to the Jews

[@guychase5842]

💯% agree with You

[@gamesbok]

He missed the point that Herodotus calls it Palaestine, and makes no mention of Judah at all.

[@gamesbok]

belinski Herodotus dug up stuff (Pterodactyls in Egypt) appreciably older than anything Maeir has found. I guess relevance, if you have a political agenda, is in the eye of the beholder

[@VALDIGNE]

@@3000_Year_Old_Man exactly!

[@moodist1er]

@@3000_Year_Old_Man and appropriated it from its culture to fit his religious ideologies..

[@OldHeathen1963]

​@@moodist1erThat could go either way tho.

[@moodist1er]

@@OldHeathen1963 no, it can't. We know where abrahamic religions come from and when they show up in the record. All the neighboring cultures have words for Palestine and none of them say anything about the other. Except the merneptah stele but it's disputed to say Jezreel which makes more sense.

[@jaymylotto8134]

Nutmeg came from the Moluccan Islands in modern day Indonesia, not Sri Lanka.

[@gaguayod]

interestingly the word Goliath (Hebrew) and Gath (Philistine) have the same spelling but the extra letters of the Hebrew 'oli', like in most cases of a word pronounce by a foreign speaker there is a distortion. So might have to rethink the story of the character called 'Goliath' was actually a person but the LARGE city of Gath as an adversary. Shame that the upper levels of civilization got destroyed to get to the biblical periods without recording them.

[@williamolivadoti3867]

Philistines inevitably came from Phylace, Greece .They had 40 black ships at Troy. Iliad. It is the simplest and best answer plus their leader was first off the boat at Troy and killed right there.

[@jayuniversal703]

Splitting in two is kind of like unconsciousness inside of your body and you have serpentine of life and Christ in you and Thoth

[@Stupidityindex]

In the XII century significant events take place, as described in the Gospels: the coming of Jesus Christ, his life and crucifixion, although the existing text of the Gospels was edited and most likely dates to the XIV-XV cc. In the mid XII century, in the year 1152, Jesus Christ is born. In secular Byzantine history he is known as Emperor Andronicus and St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called in Russian history he was portrayed as the Great Prince Andrey Bogolyubsky. To be more specific, Andrey Bogolyubsky is a chronicler counterpart of Andronicus-Christ during his stay in Vladimir-Suzdal Rus’ of the XII century, where he spent most of his life. In fact, the Star of Bethlehem blazed in the middle of the XII century. This gives us an absolute astronomical dating of Christ’s Life. [ЦРС], ch.1. ‘Star of Bethlehem’ - is an explosion of a supernova, which at present is incorrectly dated to the middle of the XI century. The present-day Crab Nebula in the Taurus Constellation is the remnant of this explosion. Enigmatic timber scarcity in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages as first recognized by dender-pioneer Ernest Hollstein (1918-1988) "No sites exist anywhere with uninterrupted timber specimen from about 1000 CE backwards to Imperial Antiquity(1st-3rd c.). which is why the dendro-chronologies for Ancient Rome and, thereby the entire first millennium are in disarray. Since the very existence of the chronology periods without wood samples was never doubted by the researchers, nobody started to question our textbook chronology. Instead, out of stratigraphic context, scholars searched for wood samples in wells or moors to fill the irritating gaps. In addition, identical reign sequences were used twice in a row to gamer more years. Therefor, "all dendrochronological datings done on West Roman time wood is wrong by some unknown number of years"(")

[@ahannam7817]

How come there is so many unread scrips that they spend so much time on a piece of broken script? I know i sound negative sorry

[@farhadoveisi2248]

This was absolutely awesome. Let me summarize, Jews and Palestinians are the same people. As all cultures around the world, mixed and gradually assimilated other smaller groups of people. Jews and Palestinians follow different religion and gradually which became your ancestors. Palestinians are you, speaking practically same language, and genetically the same as Palestinians Jews. In hundred years, you will assimilate into another you, again. 100 years ago, colonial powers created the idea of Isreal and its apartited state, as we know it. You just spoke all that to say, everyone of you in Isreal, Palestinian, Western Jordan, South of Syria and Lebanon are exactly 💯 the same people. You should do a mass DNA test on the above area, and prove my point for me 😊. You are all the same people, some of you were deported thousands of years ago and now came back home to roast. Mix and mingle, you will be a richer culture as the result. Apartit didn't work in South Africa or any other place on earth and it will not work in Israel/ Palestine. If you don't do it today! Your grand or great grand children will do it for you. Just simply because it is human nature. Make a peace ✌ 😌 with yourselves! Nuclear weapons won't stop Jews and Palestinians to create a single great country. As you say in America, peace out! 😉

[@perlefisker]

I don't understand how it can be concluded that Philistine had extensive trade because cinnamon and nutmeg is found there. It's seems a very hastily statement.

[@siegfriedlechler7412]

The names of the Philistines were: Philton = Philis-ton = Patrusites = Casluhim = Philistines. Philistines existed very early. They were even with the Hyksos. That the Philistines were part of the Hyksos contradicts the general view that the Philistines were part of the Sea Peoples 1200BC. which came to Canaan from Crete. However, the OT shows that already Abraham around 1900BC. made a covenant with Abimelech king of the Philistines. Gen. 21, 32. And that Israel when they left Egypt, 200 to 300 years before the Sea Peoples came, therefore made a detour through the desert so as not to apply to Philistines. Exodus 13:17. These Philistines were Proto-Philistines, they were part of the Hyksos. Then who were the Philistines, and where did they come from? The AT. gives answer in Amos 9:7 “Aren't you Israelites like me like the Cushites? says the LORD. Have I not brought Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines out of Kaftor... Here the Philistines and the Egyptians are referred to as Cushites, and in Genesis 10 they are referred to as Kas-luhites, descendants of Mizraim. This means that the Proto-Philistines were descendants of the Egyptians and originally came to Crete from Cush in the Caucasus and Crete was a colony of Egypt. The AT. therefore distinguishes between Cretans and Philistines = Musri. Where does the assumption come from that the Philistines were part of the Sea Peoples and only 1200 BC. Came to Palestine? It was just like the Sidonians. European Sea Peoples mixed with the Cnaanite Philistines. This is also shown by DNA findings. That means the Philistine Hyksos were not identical with the Philistines fighting Israel. These Sea Peoples Philistines were different from the Hyksos Philistines. One must distinguish between pre-philistines and philistines.