I wonder what happened to the Philistines — were they moved by the Assyrians or did they just assimilate with the Judean populace?
It's my understanding that they moved to the United States and took over the liberal arts faculty at most major universities
From what I have read, they became Jewish and assimilated into the general populace.................
There is a theory, based on some puzzling Hebrew wording concerning the Philistine capture of the Ark, that Philistine men could no longer get erections as punishment.
Some place long ago I read something that attempted to link the Philistines to the Phoenicians. It would be interesting to compare the DNA.