#philistia

[indecisiveavocado]

going to start using "historic palestine" as a synonym of philistia just to fuck with people. "did you know ramallah is not in historic palestine?"

EDIT: Maps of the region back then seem to be mostly based on the bible but this one was in an actual thing and seems legit so I'm gonna link to it. Ramallah is a little bit north of Jerusalem

Fig. 1 Map of Philistia and Judah marking the location of Khirbet al-Raʿi.

Download scientific diagram | Map of Philistia and Judah marking the location of Khirbet al-Raʿi. from publication: Y. Garfinkel and S. Gano

[krockogaytor]

messy sketch of a warrior woman inspired by mycenaean and phillistine armor. (yes i know the phoenician letters are wrong, but there’s no “tch” sound)

[tsalmu]

A group of small, portable stone Horned Altars Ekron, Palestine (Tel Miqne, Israel) 650 BCE. Source: https://www.asor.org/resources/photo-collection/pid000577

Source: Dothan, Trude, and Seymour Gitin. 2008. Miqne, Tel (Ekron). In The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land 5. Edited by Ephraim Stern. Supplementary Volume. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, pp. 1952–58.

See Also: Philistine Cult and Religion According to Archaeological Evidence by David Ben-Shlomo Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Ariel University, Ariel 40700, Israel

[bimdraws]

THE GENETIC ORIGINS OF PALESTINIANS

Note: This isn't being shared because of a belief in genetically-determined borders, but an attempt to eradicate the myth that Palestinians are foreign to the Levant because of their language or religion.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Restoration for Israel

1 But the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel and will settle them in their own land, and aliens will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob. 2 And the nations will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess the nations as male and female slaves in the Lord’s land; they will take captive those who were their captors and rule over those who oppressed them.

Downfall of the King of Babylon

3 When the Lord has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve, 4 you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon:

How the oppressor has ceased!    How his insolence has ceased! 5 The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked,    the scepter of rulers, 6 that struck down the peoples in wrath    with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger    with unrelenting persecution. 7 The whole earth is at rest and quiet;    they break forth into singing. 8 The cypresses exult over you,    the cedars of Lebanon, saying, “Since you were laid low,    no one comes to cut us down.” 9 Sheol beneath is stirred up    to meet you when you come; it rouses the shades to greet you,    all who were leaders of the earth; it raises from their thrones    all who were kings of the nations. 10 All of them will speak    and say to you: “You, too, have become as weak as we!    You have become like us!” 11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol,    and the sound of your harps; maggots are the bed beneath you,    and worms are your covering.

12 How you are fallen from heaven,    O Morning Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground,    you who laid the nations low! 13 You said to yourself,    “I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne    above the stars of God; I will sit on the mount of assembly    on the heights of Zaphon; 14 I will ascend to the tops of the clouds;    I will make myself like the Most High.” 15 But you are brought down to Sheol,    to the depths of the Pit. 16 Those who see you will stare at you    and ponder over you: “Is this the man who made the earth tremble,    who shook kingdoms, 17 who made the world like a desert    and overthrew its cities,    who would not let his prisoners go home?” 18 All the kings of the nations lie in glory,    each in his own tomb, 19 but you are cast out, away from your grave,    like loathsome carrion, clothed with the dead, those pierced by the sword,    who go down to the stones of the Pit    like a corpse trampled underfoot. 20 You will not be joined with them in burial    because you have destroyed your land;    you have killed your people.

May the descendants of evildoers    nevermore be named! 21 Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons    because of the guilt of their father. Let them never rise to possess the earth    or cover the face of the world with cities.

22 I will rise up against them, says the Lord of hosts, and will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, offspring and posterity, says the Lord. 23 And I will make it a possession of the screech owl and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the Lord of hosts.

An Oracle concerning Assyria

24 The Lord of hosts has sworn: As I have designed,    so shall it be, and as I have planned,    so shall it come to pass: 25 I will break the Assyrian in my land    and on my mountains trample him under foot; his yoke shall be removed from them    and his burden from their shoulders. 26 This is the plan that is planned    concerning the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out    over all the nations. 27 For the Lord of hosts has planned,    and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out,    and who will turn it back?

An Oracle concerning Philistia

28 In the year that King Ahaz died this oracle came:

29 Do not rejoice, all you Philistines,    that the rod that struck you is broken, for from the root of the snake will come forth an adder,    and its fruit will be a flying fiery serpent. 30 In my pastures the poor will graze    and the needy lie down in safety, but I will make your root die of famine,    and your remnant I will kill. 31 Wail, O gate; cry, O city;    melt in fear, O Philistia, all of you! For smoke comes out of the north,    and there is no straggler in its ranks.

32 What will one answer the messengers of the nation? “The Lord has founded Zion,    and the needy among his people    will find refuge in her.” — Isaiah 14 | New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (NRSVUE) New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. All rights reserved worldwide. Cross References: Exodus 15:12; Exodus 20:5; Numbers 21:8; 1 Kings 14:10; 2 Kings 16:20; 2 Chronicles 20:6; Ezra 9:8-9; Job 18:16; Job 18:19; Job 21:26; Psalm 29:5; Psalm 47:1; Psalm 125:3; Isaiah 3:14; Isaiah 3:26; Isaiah 5:14; Isaiah 5:25; Isaiah 9:4; Isaiah 10:12; Isaiah 10:14; Isaiah 45:13; Ezekiel 26:20; Ezekiel 32:27; Nahum 3:6; Matthew 11:23; Matthew 23:35; Luke 10:15; Luke 10:18; Luke 12:45; Acts 4:28; Ephesians 2:12; 2 Thessalonians 2:4; Hebrews 11:10; James 2:5

[thestreamofconsciousness777]

Write down this vision; clearly inscribe it on tablets so one may easily read it...   

“The thing that Isaiah the son of A’moz visioned concerning Judah and Jerusalem: And it must occur in the final part of the days [that] the mountain of the house of Jehovah will become firmly established above the top of the mountains, and it will certainly be lifted up above the hills; and to it all the nations must stream. And many peoples will certainly go and say: “Come YOU people, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will instruct us about his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For out of Zion law will go forth, and the word of Jehovah out of Jerusalem. And he will certainly render judgment among the nations and set matters straight respecting many peoples. And they will have to beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war anymore.

O men of the house of Jacob, come and let us walk in the light of Jehovah.

For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob. For they have become full of what is from the East, and they are practicers of magic like the Phi·lis’tines, and with the children of foreigners they abound. And their land is filled with silver and gold, and there is no limit to their treasures. And their land is filled with horses, and there is no limit to their chariots. And their land is filled with valueless gods. To the work of one’s hands they bow down, to that which one’s fingers have made. And earthling man bows down, and man becomes low, and you cannot possibly pardon them.

Enter into the rock and hide yourself in the dust because of the dreadfulness of Jehovah, and from his splendid superiority. The haughty eyes of earthling man must become low, and the loftiness of men must bow down; and Jehovah alone must be put on high in that day. For it is the day belonging to Jehovah of armies. It is upon everyone self-exalted and lofty and upon everyone lifted up or low; and upon all the cedars of Leb’a·non that are lofty and lifted up and upon all the massive trees of Ba’shan; and upon all the lofty mountains and upon all the hills that are lifted up; and upon every high tower and upon every fortified wall; and upon all the ships of Tar’shish and upon all desirable boats. And the haughtiness of the earthling man must bow down, and the loftiness of men must become low; and Jehovah alone must be put on high in that day.

And the valueless gods themselves will pass away completely. And people will enter into the caves of the rocks and into the holes of the dust because of the dreadfulness of Jehovah and from his splendid superiority, when he rises up for the earth to suffer shocks. In that day the earthling man will throw his worthless gods of silver and his valueless gods of gold that they had made for him to bow before to the shrewmice and to the bats, in order to enter into the holes in the rocks and into the clefts of the crags, because of the dreadfulness of Jehovah and from his splendid superiority, when he rises up for the earth to suffer shocks. For YOUR own sakes, hold off from the earthling man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for on what basis is he himself to be taken into account?

For, look! the [true] Lord, Jehovah of armies, is removing from Jerusalem and from Judah support and stay, the whole support of bread and the whole support of water, mighty man and warrior, judge and prophet, and practicer of divination and elderly man, chief of fifty and highly respected man and counselor and expert in magical arts, and the skilled charmer. And I shall certainly make boys their princes, and mere arbitrary power will rule over them. And the people will actually tyrannize one over the other, even each one over his fellowman. They will storm, the boy against the old man, and the lightly esteemed one against the one to be honored. For each one will lay hold of his brother in the house of his father, [saying:] “You have a mantle. A dictator you ought to become to us, and this overthrown mass should be under your hand.” He will raise [his voice] in that day, saying: “I shall not become a wound dresser; and in my house there is neither bread nor a mantle. YOU men must not set me as dictator over the people.”

For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah itself has fallen, because their tongue and their dealings are against Jehovah, in behaving rebelliously in the eyes of his glory. The very expression of their faces actually testifies against them, and of their sin like that of Sod’om they do tell. They have not hidden [it]. Woe to their soul! For they have dealt out to themselves calamity.

Say, YOU men, that it [will be] well with the righteous one, for they will eat the very fruitage of their dealings. Woe to the wicked one!—Calamity; for the treatment [rendered] by his own hands will be rendered to him! As for my people, its task assigners are dealing severely, and mere women actually rule over it. O my people, those leading you on are causing [you] to wander, and the way of your paths they have confused.

Jehovah is stationing himself to contend and is standing up to pass sentence upon peoples. Jehovah himself will enter into judgment with the elderly ones of his people and its princes.

“And YOU yourselves have burned down the vineyard. What was taken by robbery from the afflicted one is in YOUR houses. What do YOU men mean in that YOU crush my people, and that YOU grind the very faces of the afflicted ones?” is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord, Jehovah of armies.

And Jehovah says: “For the reason that the daughters of Zion have become haughty and they walk with their throats stretched forth and ogling with their eyes, they go walking with tripping steps, and with their feet they make a tinkling sound,  Jehovah also will actually make the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion scabby, and Jehovah himself will lay their very forehead bare. In that day Jehovah will take away the beauty of the bangles and the headbands and the moon-shaped ornaments, the eardrops and the bracelets and the veils, the headdresses and the step chains and the breastbands and the ‘houses of the soul’ and the ornamental humming shells, the finger rings and the nose rings, the robes of state and the overtunics and the cloaks and the purses, and the hand mirrors and the undergarments and the turbans and the large veils.

“And it must occur that instead of balsam oil there will come to be merely a musty smell; and instead of a belt, a rope; and instead of an artistic hair arrangement, baldness; and instead of a rich garment, a girding of sackcloth; a brand mark instead of prettiness. By the sword your own men will fall, and your mightiness by war. And her entrances will have to mourn and express sorrow, and she will certainly be cleaned out. She will sit down on the very earth.”

And seven women will actually grab hold of one man in that day, saying: “We shall eat our own bread and wear our own mantles; only may we be called by your name to take away our reproach.”

In that day what Jehovah makes sprout will come to be for decoration and for glory, and the fruitage of the land will be something to be proud of and something beautiful for those of Israel who have escaped. And it must occur that the ones remaining in Zion and the ones left over in Jerusalem will be said to be holy to him, everyone written down for life in Jerusalem.

When Jehovah will have washed away the excrement of the daughters of Zion and he will rinse away even the bloodshed of Jerusalem from within her by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning down, Jehovah will also certainly create over every established place of Mount Zion and over her convention place a cloud by day and a smoke, and the brightness of a flaming fire by night; because over all the glory there will be a shelter. And there will come to be a booth for a shade by day from the dry heat, and for a refuge and for a hiding place from the rainstorm and from the precipitation.” 

-Isaiah 2-4, NWT 

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[tsalmu]

"Astarte Plaque" from Tell es Safi Source: Bliss & Macalister, Excavations in Palestine, London, 1902, Plate 67 No. 15s Via: "Star of David" Blog Tell es-Safi / Gath, Palestine (Tel Tzafit Park, Israel) c. 800 BCE Current location unknown, likely stolen from place of origin and lost. Modern rendition by OP:

Some interpretative and stylistic liberties were taken in my own drawing. And despite the lack of preserved detail in the original, I very much appreciate the charm of her simple " ꞏ_ꞏ " face.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

1 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;

2 Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the Lord come upon you, before the day of the Lord's anger come upon you.

3 Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord's anger.

4 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.

5 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the Lord is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.

6 And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.

7 And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the Lord their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.

8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

9 Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.

10 This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the Lord of hosts.

11 The Lord will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.

12 Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.

14 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds; for he shall uncover the cedar work.

15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand. — Zephaniah 2 | King James Version (KJV) The King James Version of the Holy Bible is in the public domain.