Wafilisti

Miji mitano ya Wafilisti: Gaza, Ashdod, Askalona, Ekron, na Gath.

Wafilisti walikuwa kabila la watu ambao walivuka Bahari ya Kati na kisha kushindwa kuvamia Misri waliteka pwani ya Kanaani (1175 KK hivi) wakifaidika na silaha za chuma walizozitumia dhidi ya watu waliokuwa na zile za shaba tu, wakiwa wenyeji au Waisraeli.

Ingawa hawakuwa wengi, waliathiri sana nchi yao mpya, kiasi cha kuiachia jina la Palestina.

Habari nyingi juu yao zinapatikana katika Biblia.

Marejeo

• Bonfante, G. (1946). "Who were the Philistines?". American Journal of Archaeology 50: 251–262. 
• Ehrlich, Carl S. (1996). The Philistines in Transition: A History from ca. 1000-730 BC. Leiden, The Netherlands: E. J. Brill. ISBN 90-04-10426-7. 
• (2005) The Encyclopedia of Christianity, Volume 4: P-Sh. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. ISBN 0-8028-2416-1. 
• (2008) Bene Israel: Studies in the Archaeology of Israel and the Levant during the Bronze and Iron Ages in Honour of Israel Finkelstein. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. ISBN 90-04-15282-2. 
• Finkelstein, Israel (Desemba 2002). "The Philistines in the Bible: A Late-Monarchic Perspective". Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 27 (2): 131–167. doi:10.1177/030908920202700201. http://jot.sagepub.com/content/27/2/131.abstract. 
• Grabbe, Lester L. (2008). Israel in Transition: From Late Bronze II to Iron IIa (c. 1250–850 B.C.E.). Volume I. The Archaeology. New York and London: T & T Clark International. ISBN 0-567-02726-0. 
• (2006) Battles of the Bible. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Greenhill Books. ISBN 1-85367-681-0. 
• Jastrow, Marcus (2005). A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers. ISBN 1-56563-860-3. 
• Jones, A. (1972). "The Philistines and the Hearth: Their Journey to the Levant". Journal of Near Eastern Studies 31: 343–350. 
• Killebrew, Ann E. (2005). Biblical Peoples and Ethnicity: An Archaeological Study of Egyptians, Canaanites, Philistines, and Early Israel, 1300-1100 B.C.E.. Atlanta, Georgia: Society of Biblical Literature. ISBN 1-58983-097-0. 
• Levy, Thomas E. (1998). The Archaeology of Society in the Holy Land. New York, New York: Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 0-8264-6996-5. 
• Maeir, A. M. (2005). "Philister-Keramik", Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie, Band 14. Berlin, Germany: Walter de Gruyter, 528–536. 
• Meyers, Eric M. (1997). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East: Volume 4. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-506512-3. 
• Rabin, Chaim (1963). "Hittite Words in Hebrew". Orientalia 32: 113–139. 
• Redford, Donald Bruce (1992). Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-03606-3. 
• Yasur-Landau, Assaf (2010). The Philistines and Aegean Migration at the End of the Late Bronze Age. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-19162-9. 

Marejeo mengine

• Dothan, Trude Krakauer (1982). The Philistines and Their Material Culture. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-02258-1. 
• (1992) People of the Sea: The Search for the Philistines. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company. ISBN 0-02-532261-3. 
• (1998) Mediterranean Peoples in Transition: Thirteenth to Early Tenth Centuries BC. Jerusalem, Israel: Israel Exploration Society. ISBN 965-221-036-6. 
• Mendenhall, George E. (1973). The Tenth Generation: The Origins of the Biblical Tradition. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-1267-4. 
• Oren, Eliezer D. (2000). The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment (University Museum Monograph 108). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania. ISBN 0-924171-80-4. 
• Vandersleyen, Claude (2003). "Keftiu: A Cautionary Note". Oxford Journal of Archaeology 22: 209–212. 

Viungo vya nje

• List of Biblical References to Philistines or Philistia
• Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project Website
• Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project Blog
• Penn State University - The Sea Peoples and the Philistines
• Neal Bierling, Giving Goliath his Due: New Archaeological Light on the Philistines (1992)
•  "Philistines". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913. 
• The Center for Online Judaic Studies: Ramesses III and the Philistines, 1175 BC
• Biblical Archaeology Review - Yavneh Yields Over a Hundred Philistine Cult Stands