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It revisits the traditional model that links Philistines (often treated as ‘Sea-Peoples’) to Aegean origins and their eighth-year resettlement in Egypt’s southern Canaanite strongholds, while noting criticism regarding the reliability of both Egyptian texts and Philistine archaeological evidence. A methodological analysis of the paradigm’s pillars is used to reconstruct twelfth-century BCE events.","| SHIRLY BEN-DOR EVIAN\u003Cbr>RAMESSES III AND THE ‘SEA-PEOPLES’: TOWARDS A NEW PHILISTINE PARADIGM |\n| --- |\n| Summary. The Philistine paradigm attempts to answer fundamental questions in Philistine history, namely the how and when of Philistine settlement in the southern Levant. According to the traditional paradigm, the Philistines, among other ‘Sea-Peoples’, came from the Aegean islands and were settled in Egyptian strongholds in the south Canaanite Coastal Plain in the eighth year of Ramesses III. Formulated on the basis of Egyptian texts and Philistine archaeological remains, the paradigm has been criticized over the reliability of both source materials. Therefore, it is the aim of the present study to conduct a methodological analysis of the pillars on which the paradigm rests and to offer a new reconstruction of the events that took place in the Levant in the twelfth century BCE.\u003Cbr>INTRODUCTION\u003Cbr>The emergence of the Philistine culture in the southern Levant is clouded in ambiguity and as such is one of the most hotly debated issues in the history of the Iron Age in Israel. The prevalent reconstruction sees the Philistine settlement as tightly linked to the attacks of the ‘Sea-Peoples’against Egypt in Ramesses III’s eighth year. This reconstruction has been criticized on both historical and archaeological grounds (Cifola 1988; Bauer 1998; Sherratt 1998; 2003; Silberman 1998; Sharon 2001; Cline and O’Connor 2003; Finkelstein 2007; Maeir et al. 2013; Middleton 2015) . Therefore, it is the aim of the present study to reassess the validity of the traditional Philistine paradigm by presenting a new analysis of the three basic pillars on which it stands:1\u003Cbr>1. Papyrus Harris I, which describes the resettlement of ‘Sea-Peoples’ captives in Egyptian strongholds, presumably in southern Canaan.\u003Cbr>2. Philistine material culture – commonly associated with the arrival of new Aegean populations. |\n\n1 A fourth pillar is, of course, the biblical account regarding the Philistine entity, but this will not be dealt with in the present study. Suffice it to say here that according to current scholarship, the material was put in writing centuries after the events described here and hence using it for historical reconstruction is difficult, demanding the separation of genuine ‘memories’ or traditions from later layers that portray realities and goals of the authors (Finkelstein 2002; Römer 2005; Schmid and Person 2012) .  \nOXFORD JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY 36(3) 267–285 2017  \n© 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd 267  \nRAMESSES III AND THE ‘SEA-PEOPLES’  \n3. The Medinet Habu records of Ramesses III, which document the emergence of the ‘Sea-Peoples’in the Levant.  \nTwo of the pillars–Papyrus Harris I and Philistine material culture – have been challenged previously on various grounds, to which the present study adds some new observations. The third pillar – namely, the interpretation of the texts and reliefs at Medinet Habu – is here re-evaluated and radically re-interpreted, resulting in a revised historical reconstruction of early Philistine history.  \nTHE TRADITIONAL PHILISTINE PARADIGM  \nConventional reconstructions of the Philistine settlement process relied on the interpretation of Egyptian texts and reliefs together with the dispersal of Philistine pottery.  \nAccording to the textual sources, comprising the Medinet Habu reliefs and inscriptions together with the great Papyrus Harris I, Ramesses III defeated the ‘Sea-Peoples’ on the northern frontiers of the Egyptian empire and proceeded to settle them in his strongholds in southern Canaan; the ‘Sea-Peoples’ subsequently forced the Egyptians out of Canaan and seized control of the region of Philistia (Albright 1932; Alt 1944) . Alternatively, the ‘Sea-Peoples’ were defeated at the Nile Delta (Stadelmann 1968; Bietak 1993; Redford 2000), and retreated to settle southern Canaan.  \nThe discovery of locally-produced Aegean-style pottery (Monochrome and Bichrome) in the south Canaanite Coastal Plain was","cbCaigxwNfdDx9Hl","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigxwNfdDx9Hl","pdf",524727,2,1,19,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n## Traditional Philistine paradigm\n## Reassessment of the three pillars","[{\"question\":\"What main historical questions does the study aim to answer about the Philistines?\",\"answer\":\"The study targets how and when Philistine settlement in the southern Levant occurred, focusing on competing reconstructions.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the traditional Philistine paradigm and why is it criticized?\",\"answer\":\"It links Philistine settlement to attacks by the ‘Sea-Peoples’ during Ramesses III’s eighth year, using Egyptian texts and Philistine archaeological remains. 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