Masiakasaurus
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Reading the article, I think it's Fox I'm disagreeing with. The archeologists' statements were mostly just to say, "We haven't found anything that contradicts what we thought about the Philistines." It's the history and origins of the Philistines that the writer gives which are dubious.
We know Goliath's name (and by extension the Philistine language) is not Semitic, but the article is claiming his name and other fragments of the Philistine language are Indo-European. I don't know where they're getting that from because we don't know how to read the Philistine's writings nor do we know how the language was spoken. The article is also claiming that the Philistines crossed the Mediterranean Sea from Greece based on design motifs from recovered pottery. The problem is that we don't have any records or where the Philistines came from before settling in Canaan. It's possible that the Philistines descended from Greek colonists, but it's just as likely that they dealt with Greek seafaring traders. If they were Greek, why didn't they speak any (recognizable) Greek dialect? Finally, the article plainly says that the Philistines worshiped gods with Greek sounding names, but we know that the Philistines pantheon was made up up borrowed Canaanite gods such as Baal with names that appear to be cognates.
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