It seems modern evidence might be leaning towards the Philistines being a subset of the Sea Peoples and having an Aegean origin (making them Greek?). One of th

It seems modern evidence might be leaning towards the Philistines being a subset of the Sea Peoples and having an Aegean origin (making them Greek?). One of these findings is really recent: These findings may represent the most conclusive evidence that Philistines were not indigenous to Canaan which is indicated by ceramics, architecture, burial customs, and pottery remains with writing – in non-Semitic languages. Lawrence Stager of Harvard University believes that Philistines came to Canaan by ships before the Battle of the Delta circa 1175 BCE. DNA was extracted from the skeletons for archaeogenetic population analysis.[14] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philistines#Burial_practices https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philistines#Burial_practices https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Peoples#Philistine_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Peoples#Philistine_hypothe... That doesn't answer your question, but the Hebrew origin stories always place them further east from Canaan in Mesopotamia. If the Philistines were the Sea People, it makes the clash of those two different cultures (Aegean vs Near East) make sense.