בס'ד
יום שישי, יולי 15, 2005
Re: Plishtime
00:37:15 GMT-07:00 22 תמוז 5765
Yisrael -
Basically, “Palestine” was the Roman corruption of the Hebrew word “Plishtim” (“פלשתים”), from “לפלש”, “to invade”. The Plishtim, who appear throughout Tanach, from Avraham onward, were not really one people; rather, they were the term by which locals (Canaanites and Israelites alike) referred to the non-indigenous, warlike peoples who colonized and terrorized the Coastal Plain for a thousand years - “The Invaders”.
Biblical archaeologists love to cite the “Philistines” as proof that the Torah was written by men, because whoever wrote it, conveniently used whichever enemy was contemporaneous to him, and simply applied that label back through time, so that Avraham, Moshe, Shimshon and the Nevi’im all battled this omnipresent Philistine nation. Using that line of reasoning, it is highly unlikely in real history that the same enemy (Philistines) would have terrorized Israel for a millennium.
The proper reading of it, though, is that the locals (Canaanites and Israelites) referred to these strangers as “The Invaders”, much like we refer to border-jumpers in California or Texas as “illegal aliens”. They may be mostly Mexicans nowadays, but they might also be former Soviets, Cubans, or any other folks illegally gaining entry into the U.S. This interpretation of Plishtim allows that the “Philistines” were really not one continuous nation at all, but rather a succession of invading peoples with little or no connection to one another – which, of course, makes a lot of sense, and does not contradict Tanach.
After the Romans destroyed Judea in 3826, they Romanized “P’lishtia” into “Palestina”. Later, Arafat (yemach sh’mo) and the A-rabs resurrected the word because of the Roman connection to wiping out the Jewish presence, but “Arabicized” it to “f’lishtia”, because they cannot pronounce the “P”. They now claim the Land as theirs, while simultaneously trumpeting themselves as, etymologically speaking, “the invaders”. They are right – they are the invaders. What morons.
(By the way, the Ethopian Jews used to be called “Falashas” in Amharic by the locals. Reversed roles, same idea.)
Just the same, the A-rabs deny the Jewish historical presence in places like Nablus, yet in reality, that city, formerly Shechem, was also renamed by the Romans, to “Naples”, and the A-rabs corrupted that one to “Nablus” because, again, they can’t pronounce the “P” and have no clue where their words come from.
Not too long ago I found a good website which explains this all very well, but I do not remember it now.
In the meantime, check out this article that I found, written by a Japanese woman:
Link to this: 15:14
This is a followup e-mail to a discussion I was having with a friend during שבת lunch. Just a hint of the type of talk at our Shabbos Table .
Basically, “Palestine” was the Roman corruption of the Hebrew word “Plishtim” (“פלשתים”), from “לפלש”, “to invade”. The Plishtim, who appear throughout Tanach, from Avraham onward, were not really one people; rather, they were the term by which locals (Canaanites and Israelites alike) referred to the non-indigenous, warlike peoples who colonized and terrorized the Coastal Plain for a thousand years - “The Invaders”.
Biblical archaeologists love to cite the “Philistines” as proof that the Torah was written by men, because whoever wrote it, conveniently used whichever enemy was contemporaneous to him, and simply applied that label back through time, so that Avraham, Moshe, Shimshon and the Nevi’im all battled this omnipresent Philistine nation. Using that line of reasoning, it is highly unlikely in real history that the same enemy (Philistines) would have terrorized Israel for a millennium.
The proper reading of it, though, is that the locals (Canaanites and Israelites) referred to these strangers as “The Invaders”, much like we refer to border-jumpers in California or Texas as “illegal aliens”. They may be mostly Mexicans nowadays, but they might also be former Soviets, Cubans, or any other folks illegally gaining entry into the U.S. This interpretation of Plishtim allows that the “Philistines” were really not one continuous nation at all, but rather a succession of invading peoples with little or no connection to one another – which, of course, makes a lot of sense, and does not contradict Tanach.
After the Romans destroyed Judea in 3826, they Romanized “P’lishtia” into “Palestina”. Later, Arafat (yemach sh’mo) and the A-rabs resurrected the word because of the Roman connection to wiping out the Jewish presence, but “Arabicized” it to “f’lishtia”, because they cannot pronounce the “P”. They now claim the Land as theirs, while simultaneously trumpeting themselves as, etymologically speaking, “the invaders”. They are right – they are the invaders. What morons.
(By the way, the Ethopian Jews used to be called “Falashas” in Amharic by the locals. Reversed roles, same idea.)
Just the same, the A-rabs deny the Jewish historical presence in places like Nablus, yet in reality, that city, formerly Shechem, was also renamed by the Romans, to “Naples”, and the A-rabs corrupted that one to “Nablus” because, again, they can’t pronounce the “P” and have no clue where their words come from.
Not too long ago I found a good website which explains this all very well, but I do not remember it now.
In the meantime, check out this article that I found, written by a Japanese woman:
Link to this: 15:14
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