"It’s amazing how much anthropologists can make up... er, I mean detect from a few bones."
You can tell right away, just from the smile, that these are the bones of one of them stinking Philistines!
Posted on 07/31/2020 3:16:14 PM PDT by Pharmboy
The researchers found a Philistine cemetery in Israel – home to 145 human remains dating back to between the 11th and the 8th centuries BC. The discovery, made in 2013 and finally revealed in 2016, may yield answers to an enduring mystery surrounding the origins of the Philistines. It came at the end of a 30-year excavation by the Leon Levy Expedition. The Philistines were an ancient people who lived from the 12th century BC until 604 BC. They are known for their biblical conflict with the Israelites.
They married their biological sisters. And/or nieces so to speak.
Not as horrifying as it first sounds. First of all people were living for hundreds of years so they were hardly siblings like we grow up with like today. Secondly no genetic deterioration yet so genetic issues nonexistent.
Incest was forbidden by the time God gave the law to Moses. By then people lived our normal lifespan and there had been many generations so we were in the genetic downslide of negative mutations we continue today.
Oh I can’t wait to hear those melodies! And the psalms sung in the ancient Hebrew!
Which brings me back to the excavation in Ashkelon. After analyzing DNA from the site, Michal Feldman, an archaeogeneticist at the Max Planck Institute, and Daniel Master, the head of the expedition, revealed the results. Master announced, “Our study has shown for the first time that the Philistines immigrated to this region in the 12th century (BC).” And from where did they immigrate? According to Feldman, “This [DNA] ancestral component is derived from Europe, or to be more specific, from southern Europe, so the ancestors of the Philistines must have traveled across the Mediterranean and arrived in Ashkelon sometime between the end of the Bronze age and the beginning of the Iron age.” : Archaeology, genetics confirm Bible story of Philistines' origins
Now, a study of genetic material extracted from skeletons unearthed in the Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon in 2013 has found a DNA link. It connects the Philistines to populations in southern Europe during the Bronze Age. The study, spearheaded by researchers from Germany’s Max Planck Institute and Wheaton College in Illinois, was published Wednesday in the research journal Science Advances. . .The study found that the remains dating to the early Iron Age — the period associated with many of the stories involving Philistines in the Bible — were genetically distinct from their Levantine neighbors, and had close similarities with populations in southern Europe.: Scholars say Philistine genes help solve biblical mystery
You can tell right away, just from the smile, that these are the bones of one of them stinking Philistines!
one thing for sure. Arafatistanians are not Philistines
My vote goes to San Fran Nan Plosi.
Wake me when they dig up and claim they have found Elija’s chariot of fire.
The Philistine history and culture is reveiled in the Bible, why do we waste time and treasure trying to prove what’s already true?
They must have married their sisters.
Cain and Abel married sisters. Adam and Eve had multiple other unnamed children. While close relatives being the first offspring there was hardly any issue with passing on any genetic defects. The prohibition of marrying close relatives came well after the flood.
Yup
Yes every human is descended from Adam and Eve
That’s why this whole different races thing is so foolish.
There is only ONE race, the Human Race.
(The Mother of all living) refers to Christ being born of her bloodline. ALL are part of the living referred to if they come through Christ. All others are doomed to die as foretold in Genesis after the (fall of Man.)
All animals were created on the 6th day, then there was the day of rest. The story picks up with God finding out he had no man to tend the flocks, so he created Adam then Eve. They were created apart from the rest of the animals which included humans. Cain was sent off to live among them.
We don’t know how long between the creation of the 6th day was and the creation of Adam and Eve, but 1 day is a 1,000 years it is said.
It makes as much sense as Cain marrying his sister when he was banned from Adam and Eves sight for killing his brother.
My favorite Apocrypha story is the one when Jesus was a little boy making pigeons out of clay on the Sabbath and a Rabbi scolded him for working. Jesus clapped his hands and the pigeons flew away.
Oops, sorry.. I should take time to read some of the other post before making my usual foolish comments..
LOLOL!!
I think Selah means a break
A break in the music.
I believe there is some crazy looking thigie to denote a break in modern music.
Quarter ‘rest’
https://img.etsystatic.com/il/5e660d/784690775/il_fullxfull.784690775_5oer.jpg?version=0
Thank you for your service!
God created Adam and Eve with perfect DNA.
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