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Sacred Texts: Ancient Near East

The Philistines: Chapter IV. The Culture of the Philistines: I. Their Language

Ancient Near East ArchaeologyBiblical PeoplesPhilistine HistorySea Peoples

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Of the language of the Philistines we are profoundly ignorant. An inscription in their tongue, written in an intelligible script, would be one of the greatest rewards that an explorer of Palestine could look for. As yet, the only materials we have for a study of the Philistine language are a few proper names, and possibly some words, apparently non-Semitic, embedded here and there in the Hebrew of the Old Testament.

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