{"id":72523,"date":"2020-03-29T17:18:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T14:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=72523"},"modified":"2020-03-29T17:18:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T14:18:30","slug":"philistines-be-upon-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/philistines-be-upon-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Philistines Be Upon Us!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[],"acf":{"old_id":"72523","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":64450,"related_cahpter":"447","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"When did they become so uncouth?\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In chapter 47, Jeremiah delivers a prophecy against the Philistines. He predicts that they will be destroyed in attacks both by the Egyptians and by the Babylonians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Philistines, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Pelishtim]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Hebrew, were a people that lived on the southern Mediterranean coast of Canaan, and were long time rivals of Israel during the period of the judges and early kings. Their origin is not entirely clear, but it is likely they were from Aegean origin. This would make them related to the Greeks, and there is some linguistic evidence to support this. For example, the biblical word <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[seren]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> used to describe Philistine princes may be cognate with the Greek <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[tyrannos]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> meaning \u201clord, master\u201d and the origin of the English word \u201ctyrant.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A tradition of the Philistines coming from the Aegean is reflected in the Bible. In our chapter, Jeremiah calls them \u201cthe remnant from the Island of Caphtor\u201d (47:4), likely the island of Crete. The name <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Pelishtim] <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(and the name of their land, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Peleshet]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), also supports this approach. Beginning in post-Biblical Hebrew the root <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[palash]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> means \u201cto invade.\u201d (In Biblical Hebrew it meant \u201cto roll (in dust)\u201d but this apparently came from an earlier sense meaning, \u201cto burrow\u201d, which led to the later meaning of \u201cto invade.\u201d)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is unclear whether <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Peleshet] <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">derives from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[palash].<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Perhaps that was a name given to them by their Israelite neighbors (a phenomenon known as an exonym), or maybe their original name just happened to sound like <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[palash]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In either case, it\u2019s likely that the Israelites viewed the Philistines as invaders, and made an association between the two words.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How did \u201cphilistine\u201d become a person who doesn\u2019t appreciate arts and culture?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1693, in the town of Jena, Germany, there was tension between university students and residents of the town. This tension became violent, and several students were killed by townspeople, after having fallen asleep at their table in an inn. At the funeral, the university pastor evoked the story of Samson and the Philistines, where Samson was attacked after falling asleep.\u00a0 He quoted Judges 16:20 \u2013 &#8220;the Philistines be upon you, Samson.&#8221; This became the rallying cry of the students, who called the uncultured townsfolk Philistines. This usage eventually spread into English.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image: Illustration depicting a Philistine victory over the Israelites (1896), from,: The Art Bible, with numerous illustrations, G. 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