TO THE ORIGIN OF THE BIBLICAL PEOPLE OF THE PELASGIANS-PHILISTINES

Abstract

The biblical people of the Philistines have long been compared by scientists with the mysterious people of the Pelasgians. Little is known about this people, but we will try to expand this knowledge by drawing on the preserved words of modern languages that may have come from biblical antiquity. The picture we have drawn of the life of this people is hardly very different from the actual one, which makes our methods quite acceptable for conducting such ethnographic research. But the Biblical commentaries in modern publications of a century ago have long been outdated and clearly need not only to be improved, but more often to be completely reworked. It is possible that it is necessary to carefully consider the chronology of historical events, which in some cases does not coincide with the biblical one.