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To: Lent

Modern day Palestinian Arabs have as their ancestors Arabs, Egyptians, Judeans, Samaritans, Arameans, Moabites, Edomites, and yes Philistines.

Modern day Jews have among their ancestors Judeans, Edomites and yes, Philistines.

The Philistines as a nation were absorbed by their neighbours well before the Assyrian conquess of the 8th century BC


12 posted on 08/18/2023 10:12:57 PM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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To: Cronos

The Jews (Hebrews) originated from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Some of the Philistines may have been assimilated into the Jewish population - but not the other way around - as other groups over time have also mixed in with part of the Jewish population.


15 posted on 08/19/2023 7:46:09 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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