Philistia


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nounan ancient region on the coast of southwestern Palestine that was strategically located on a trade route between Syria and Egypt

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The Campaign of Ramesses III against Philistia. Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 3/4: 1-11.
How and when the designation "Palestine" (i.e., Philistia) came to be used for the Land of Israel is a vexed question.
A more appropriate comment on Alex Salmond was written by Idris Davies, about Saunders Lewis, almost 80 years ago, who "Roused his land, by word and deed, Against Philistia and her more".
It may have been struck at Philistia's central mint during Judah's transition to a monetary economy, when it lacked the means to produce its own coins.
One of the five chief towns of Philistia and probably the oldest, Gaza is situated near the coast in lat.
Their topics include the microscopic record, the impact of urbanization on Middle Bronze Age households in the southern Levant, household gleanings from Iron 1 Tel Dan, early Iron Age domestic material cultural in Philistia and an eastern Mediterranean koine, household economies in the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, and cult corners in the Aegean and the Levant.
He added that the discovery could indicate that the story of Samson reflects a type of temple that was in use in Philistia at the time.
Lewis Macondo George Macdonald Maple White Land Gabriel Garcia Marquez Noble's Isle Andre Maurois Oldwivesfabledom Herman Melville Pellucidar Sir Thomas More Penguin Island William Morris Phantastico Plato Philistia Pliny the Elder Protocosmo Edgar Allan Poe Satinland Francois Rabelais Shangri-La Sir Walter Raleigh Standard Island Salman Rushdie Titipu Robert Louis Stevenson Upmeads Jonathan Swift Utopia Alfred, Lord Tennyson Vanity Fair J.
Or the second cola might take an image from the first and make it more concrete or specific, as in Exodus 15:14 where in the line, "Peoples heard and they quaked, / trembling seized Philistia's dwellers," the generic reference to peoples is made specific by reference to the Philistines.
The Old Testament names imply that the transients, who are allegorically aligned with the Israelites, have the right to settle in the cities of Philistia. (21) Yet the enforced mobility that the transients experience denies them the right of settlement.
On one occasion he responded to Ricketts's intolerant hatred of a would-be disciple with the admonition: 'You, my dear Ricketts, belong to the older type of deity, who mistakes worshippers for food, and when they see one tear him to pieces.' (51) Although Wilde served Alfred Douglas a poisonous dish in his letter to posterity from Reading Gaol, De Profundis is in reality Wilde's quarrel with himself for having fallen in love with a prince of Philistia. It is a conflict in which he finally achieves reconciliation with himself through identification with the suffering, antinomian Christ--the ultimate 'king who is not'.