MIDEAST 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Yarkon River, Sea Peoples, David Was
22 Oct 2018
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10/2 last class continued: the philistines, egyptian sources like papyrus harris and ramses iii"s tomb, called sea people , but they adopted palaastu (invaders, organization. Largest river from the central hill: north of tel aviv, near the mouth of the yarkon river, most excavated philistine city. Adjacent to the tel aviv university: beer bottles and other pottery show an imported culture, very different from israelites pottery, show greek columns, had control over the tribes in the central hill (israelites?) After david, they existed as an ethnic group but not a military: david and the rise of monarchies, sources: the books of samuel (book 8&9), the dan inscription, mythical, national hero. There"s a lot of information about him but it"s hard to tell what is myth and what is truth. The dan inscription uses the term house of david", which indicates that he may have existed. Young but genius military leader that united the tribes to unite the.
