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Posted on 05/11/2010 5:28:12 AM PDT by SJackson
New finds from dig shed light on 11th, 12th Century BC dynasty.
The great kingdom of 'Palestine' once existed within Syrian and Turkish boundaries, Professor J.P Dessel of the University of Tennessee claimed in a statement released on Tuesday.
The professor, who is a member of the Tell Tayinat archeological digs in Turkey, who presided at the Haifa University Ancient East Research Conference, asserted that the commonwealth was located between the cities of Aleppo, Hama and Antakya and the Turkish-Syrian border in the 12th and 11th Centuries BC.
The significance of this find, which was being discussed in a special meeting, is that the ancient Philistine empire was not limited to the lands of Canaan.
Following the collapse of the Hittite dynasty in the 13th Century BC, smaller states sprung up in areas that were previously under Hittite rule, one of which was Palestine. In his lecture, Dessel explained that this was concluded from new-found evidence which was unearthed in the Tell Tayinat excavations.
Hittite hieroglyphics were found on the Antakya site reading "Palestine." Similar hieroglyphics were found in the cities of Aleppo and Hama
This is a significant discovery which shows that the Philistines did not just hold land in Israel, but in Syria as well," Haifa University's Professor Gershon Glil, the conference coordinator, said.
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Philistines not to be confused with todays assortment of Arabs called palestinians. Many, ironically, known as South Syrians prevented from returning to Syria in the nakbah.
The Philistines were eventually incorporated into Judea and became Jews. So the land belongs to THE JEWS!............................
so the boundaries of a new palestinian state can include parts of Syria and Turkey
cool, let’s start the negotiations
For accuracy sake,wasn’t it Asia Minor, before it was Turkey?
So we can expect them to start firing rockets into Turkey now?
How many conquerors passed through this geographical area, leaving behind their jeans and genes?
Even Brian, the chosen One, was sired by a Roman soldier according to his mum. (ref: Life of Brian)
If the Palis want to play the whole Occupied Lands then Lets go on about Constaninople.. It is a Christian City that occupied by the Turks.
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The Philistines are alive and well... at DU.
Comments: Prof Dessel is very cynical, and often inserts his own opinions about current world affairs into lectures that are supposed to be about world civilizations from their origins to 1500. For example, he often refers to the conflict with Iraq as "President Bush's war with Iraq." Once he even informed us that the only reason we were interested in removing Saddam was "for the oil." He also harps on the oppressor and the oppressed, and implies that the U.S. is no different from past empires, and always tries to use "class envy" throughout history and the present by explaining it in terms of the "haves" and "have nots," instead of actual historical events. On top of this, Prof Dessel discourages anyone from challenging his viewpoints.
http://noindoctrination.org/cgibin/display_record.cgi?uid=79
He also signed a petition by a bunch of academics who want the Israelis to kick Elad off the Jerusalem digs for "politicizing" Jerusalem archeology.
http://www.alt-arch.org/docs/petitiontext.txt
Dessel is a signer endorsing an attack by the Texas Freedom Network (a "mainstream voice to counter the Christian right") on a curriculum to teach the Bible as literature.
http://www.tfn.org/site/PageServer?pagename=endorsements
I'd say the Professor is a secular liberal pro-Pali Bush hater. Not that such views would incline one to find a Greater Palestine, mind you.
Wow, nice work! Thanks colorado tanker!
I wish an objective, non-political, archaeologist would have looked at whatever evidence this guy looked at. While most people think the Philistines originated somewhere in the Mycenaean world (Cyprus?), some think they came out of the region of the Hittite Empire. Although the idea of a Philistine kingdom north of Lebanon seems absurd, what he saw, if indeed it is Philistine at all, could shed some light on origins.
An investigation of this clown should begin, followed by a tenure hearing, and he should be booted and blackballed.
It’s part of the Greater Syria concept — the ethnically undifferentiated Arabs often referred to as “Palestinians” are, like the Lebanese, just another group to be integrated under rule by Damascus.
IIRC, the Philistines were not a Semitic people, and today’s DNA evidence does not indicate the interbred much with the locals.
Before the 1960s, the term ‘Palestinian’ almost always meant ‘Jew’!
True, the Philistines were not Semitic, but, since there are no more Philistines to get a sample DNA from how would we distinguish their DNA from any others?................
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