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To: SunkenCiv

Some of these History Channel shows are so bad that I hesitate to mention it but here goes anyway.

Maybe 5 years ago they had one about ancient Israel and the Philistines. They actually called the Philistines (The Sea People) and suggested they came from Greece.


17 posted on 07/21/2013 4:34:57 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: yarddog

Yeah, that comes up once in a while (the idea, not the show). I think there was at least one topic about that very idea, and perhaps about that show — maybe Jacobovich? He tried to make the (mythical) mid-2nd m BC Thera supereruption responsible for parting of the Red Sea, a tsunami which drowned the pharaoh’s army, and then attributed somebody or other to, hmm, the Mycenaeans? Minoans? (because a volcano hundreds of miles away can manipulate huge bodies of water by remote control) I have that disk around here, uh, somewhere. James Cameron produced it. Ah, there were a bunch of ‘em:

https://www.google.com/search?q=jacobovici+exodus+site:freerepublic.com

Philistines Sea Peoples:
https://www.google.com/search?q=philistines+sea+peoples+site%3Afreerepublic.com


20 posted on 07/21/2013 4:42:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: yarddog

more general hits:

https://www.google.com/search?q=sea+people+site%3Afreerepublic.com


21 posted on 07/21/2013 4:43:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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