Sea People Identity (original) (raw)
The Crisis of the Sea Peoples ( https://sea-peoples.blogspot.com ), 2020
The subject of this study is the first migratory wave of Sea Peoples, dated to the age of Pharaoh Mernepath (late 13th century BC). According to the Egyptian sources, this coalition consisted of five Sea Peoples, namely the Ekwesh, Teresh, Lukka, Sherden and Shekelesh. They joined some Libyan tribes and attacked northern Egypt, but they were defeated in a great battle that took place in year 5 of Merneptah. However, the archaeological findings from several sites located in Cyprus and Canaan show that the first wave of Sea Peoples had managed to settle in those Mediterranean regions. Pyla-Kokkinokremos (in Cyprus) and Tel Nami (in Canaan) are the settlements that better represent this earlier migratory wave, seeing that they had a brief occupation during a period that is clearly dated before the beginning of the reign of Ramesses III. The Great Karnak Inscription recorded that many warriors dead in battle, who belonged to the Sea Peoples’ coalition, were circumcised; and this intriguing question is also analysed in this work.
2013
The search for the biblical Philistines, one of ancient Israel's most storied enemies, has long intrigued both scholars and the public. Archaeological and textual evidence examined in its broader eastern Mediterranean context reveals that the Philistines, well-known from biblical and extra-biblical texts, together with other related groups of Sea Peoples, played a transformative role in the development of new ethnic groups and polities that emerged from the ruins of the Late Bronze Age empires. The essays in this book, representing recent research in the fields of archaeology, Bible, and history, reassess the origins, identity, material culture, and impact of the Philistines and other Sea Peoples on the Iron Age cultures and peoples of the eastern Mediterranean. The contributors are Matthew J. Adams, Michal Artzy, Tristan J. Barako, David Ben-Shlomo, Mario Benzi, Margaret E. Cohen, Anat Cohen-Weinberger, Trude Dothan, Elizabeth French, Marie-Henriette Gates, Hermann Genz, Ayelet Gilboa, Maria Iacovou, Ann E. Killebrew, Sabine Laemmel, Gunnar Lehmann, Aren M. Maeir, Amihai Mazar, Linda Meiberg, Penelope A. Mountjoy, Hermann Michael Niemann, Jeremy B. Rutter, Ilan Sharon, Susan Sherratt, Neil Asher Silberman, and Itamar Singer.