Philistia

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	Robert W. Benton, "The Philistines and the Early Kingdom of Israel," Grace Journal 8.1 (Winter 1967): 21-31. pdf [Reproduced Courtesy of the Brethren Digital Archive]
	Trude, Dothan, Philistine Material Culture and its Mycenaean Affinities. Pp. 187–88 and 376 in Acts of the International Archaeological Symposium: The Mycenaeans in the Eastern Mediterranean. Nicosia, 1973.
	Trude Dothan, The Philistines and their Material Culture. Jerusalem / Cambridge, MA: Israel Exploration Society / Yale University Press, 1982. Hbk. ISBN: 0300022581.
	Trude Dothan, "Tel Miqne-Ekron: The Aegean affinities of the Sea Peoples’ (Philistines’) settlement in Iron Age I" S. Gitin, ed. Recent Excavations in Israel: A view to the west. Reports from Kabri, Nami, Miqne-Ekron, Dor, and Ashkelon. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt, 1995. pp.41-59
	Trude Dothan, "Ekron of the Philistines," Biblical Archaeology Review 16 (1990): 26-36.
	Trude Dothan, "What we know about the Philistines," Biblical Archaeology Review 8 (1982,): 4, 20-44.
	Trude Dothan, & M. Dothan, Peoples of the Sea: the Search for the Philistines. New York: Macmillan, 1992. Hbk. ISBN: 0025322613. pp.276.
	Carl S. Ehrlich, The Philistines in Translation. Leiden: E J Brill, 1996. ISBN: 9004104267. pp.220.
	Israel Finkelstein, "The Philistine Countryside," Israel Exploration Journal 46.3-4 (1996): 225-242.
	Israel Finkelstein, "The Philistines in the Bible: A Late-Monarchic Perspective," Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 27.2 (2002): 131-167. [Abstract]
	S. Gitin, "Tel Miqne-Ekron in the 7th century BCE: the impact of economic innovation and foreign cultural influences on a Neo-Assyrian vassal city-state" S. Gitin, ed. Recent Excavations in Israel: A view to the west. Reports from Kabri, Nami, Miqne-Ekron, Dor, and Ashkelon. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt, 1995. Pbk. ISBN: 0787204862. pp.61-79.
	S. Gitin & Trude Dothan, "The rise and fall of Ekron of the Philistines: Recent excavations at an urban border site" Biblical Archaeologist 50 (1985): 197-222.
	Aren M. Ehrlich & Carl S. Maeir, "Excavating Philistine Gath, Have We Found Goliath's Hometown?" Biblical Archaeology Review 27.6 (2001): 22-31.
	Edward E. Hindson, The Philistines and the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1971. Pbk. ISBN: 0801040345.
	S. Gitin, A. Mazar & E. Stern, eds. Mediterranean Peoples in Transition: Thirteenth to Early Tenth Centuries BCE. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1998. Hbk. ISBN: 9652210366. pp.481.
	James E. Jennings, "The Problem of the Caphtorim," Grace Journal 12.2 (Spring 1971): 23-45. pdf [Reproduced Courtesy of the Brethren Digital Archive]
	The First Philistine Inscription Found in Israel is That of Akish, "Prince of Ekron" (Peter Kaswalder, O.F.M.)
	H.J. Katzenstein & T. Dothan, "Philistines" D.N. Freedman, ed. The Anchor Bible Dictionary, Vol. 5. New York: Doubleday, 1992 .pp.326-333.
	R.A.S. Macalister, Philistines, Their History and Civilization. Periodicals Service Company, 1980. Pbk. ISBN: 0317157310.
	A. Mazar, "The Emergence of the Philistine Material Culture," Israel Exploration Journal 35 (1985): 95–107.
	James D. Muhly "How Iron Technology Changed the Ancient World and Gave the Philistines a Military Edge," Biblical Archaeology Review 8 (November-December 1982): 40-54.
	N.K. Sandars, The Sea Peoples: Warriors of the Ancient Mediterranean 1250-1150 BC. London: Thames & Hudson, 1985. Pbk. ISBN: 0500273871.
	William M. Schniedewind, "The Geopolitical History of Philistine Gath," Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 309 (1998): 69-77.
	I. Singer, "The beginning of Philistine settlement in Canaan and the northern boundary of Philistia" Tel Aviv 12 (1985): 109-114.
	Bryan Jack Stone, "The Philistines and Acculturation: Culture Change and Ethnic Continuity in the Iron Age," Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 298 (1995): 7-32.
	H. Tadmor, "Philistia under Assyrian rule," Biblical Archaeologist 29 (1966): 86-102.
	Henry Baker Tristram [1822-1906], Bible Places; or, The Topography of the Holy Land. A Succinct Account of all the Places, Rivers and Mountains of the Land of Israel, Mentioned in the Bible, So Far as They Have Been Identified, 4th edn. London: SPCK, 1884. Hbk. pp.382. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Bryant G. Wood, "The Philistines Enter Canaan: Were they Egyptian Lackeys or Invading Conquerors," Biblical Archaeological Review, November/December 1991.
	Edwin M. Yamauchi, "Archaeological Evidence for the Philistines A Review Article," Westminster Theological Journal 35.3 (1973): 315-323.
	Adam Zertal, "Philistine Kin Found in Early Israel," Biblical Archaeology Review 28.3 (2002): 18-31, 60-61.

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