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To: Destro
Crete was Minoan, not Greek. Big difference, although both cultures did interact extensively. Even according to your own article, the Philistines were considered either Greek or Minoan in origin. Minoans came from Crete. It is not known where the original Minoans came from. For that matter, it is not known where the original Philistines came from either. As I've said before, the odds are that the Philistines and the Phoenicians are the one and the same.
48 posted on 05/08/2003 6:15:36 AM PDT by Frumious Bandersnatch
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To: Frumious Bandersnatch
By the time of the Sea People's Crete was "Greek". The Greeks came about by the mixing of the aboriginal peoples of Greece with the arriving Indo-European speakers. So the Minoans were proto-Greek. The culture that replaced Minoan used its writting system but it wrote in Greek.

In any case the Philistines and the Phoenicians are NOT one and the same. The Philistines were Indo-Europaan language speaing Greeks - not Semetic Phoenicians. See my links.

49 posted on 05/08/2003 8:06:00 AM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorisim by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
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