Who Were the Philistines? | with Archaeologist Aren Maeir, excavator of Gath of the Philistines

Mentioned throughout the Hebrew Bible as terrifying fighters, the Philistines were ancient Israel’s greatest enemy…or were they? Decades of excavation at Gath, the largest and most powerful of the Philistine cities, have shed dramatic new light on this infamous biblical people. Join us as we speak with Aren Maeir, director of the Tell es-Safi/Gath excavation, to dig deeper into the Philistines, where they came from, and what made their culture so distinctive.

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