Post by Hellenas on Dec 17, 2010 9:48:17 GMT -5
Israel.
An integral part of the racial history of Mediterranean peoples is that of the Jews, who have spread widely throughout the world, and whose cultural position within the ranks of the white race is unique. Since the Jews are basically Mediterranean in race, the first segment, and that portion of the second which deals with the Mediterranean world, merit consideration in the present chapter.
The Children of Israel, who formed the basic stock of the present-day Jews, lived continuously and exclusively in Palestine from about 1200 B.C.
The Phiistines, who were a branch of the western sea-peoples who harried Egypt and the whole eastern end of the Mediterranean about 1200 B.C., the time of the Trojan War, and who may have come from the general neighborhood of the Aegean.
The Philistines are represented as straight-nosed, European-looking Mediterraneans, with light skins;
Philistines. (Egyptian.)
Jews. (Babylonian.)
Ancient Jew
The exact origin of the Children of Israel who entered Palestine and fought the Philistines, and who founded a Jewish kingdom.
The Philistines of the coastal settlements resisted this process the longest.
The second Jewish diaspora was the stream of migration of Jews which followed the expansion of Hellenism; it began with Alexander and his successors, and continued under the Byzantine Empire. Although Jews spread to the entire Hellenistic and Byzantine worlds, there were two main centers (aside from Egypt,43<> Syria, and Asia Minor), in which these Hellenistic Jews were concentrated; (a) the Balkans, and (b) the northern shore of the Black Sea. Both of these Jewish centers were established well before the Christian era. On the north shore of the Black Sea the greatest Jewish concentration point was the Crimea, where Jews went with the Greeks after the days of Alexander. The Hellenistic and Byzantine Jews of what is now southern Russia sustained the invasions of the Goths and of the Huns without dislodgement; in the seventh century A.D. they met the invasions of the Tatars. The rise of the Khazar kingdom, a Tatar state, was of some importance in Jewish history, for in 740 A.D. the reigning family and a few of the upper class of the Khazars were converted to Judaism.
(b) The Sephardim, who are most numerous in the Balkan states and the Near East, but who also live in scattered colonies on both shores of the Mediterranean Sea, and who have emigrated in some numbers to both North and South America.
The Sephardic Jews of Salonika and of Turkey in Europe differ from the North African ones only in possessing the mesocephalic cephalic index of 78; they are predominantly straight-nosed, and partly blond in one-sixth of the group.
carnby.altervista.org/troe/11-07.htm
This Jewish racial entity is almost purely Mediterranean, and is the result of the combining of several Mediterranean types in Palestine and elsewhere during the courses of Jewish history.
They are almost all brunet-white in skin color.
The Jews of Asia Minor are descendants of the Byzantine Jews, reënforced by many Sephardim.
The physical composition of the central European Jewish body has not been difficult to determine. The Ashkenazim are a reasonably uniform people in a statistical sense; furthermore, many of their metrical characters, as far as we know them, are not markedly different from those of their Mediterranean Jewish ancestors. The facial diameters, for example, relate them closely to the Mediterranean prototype., in strong contrast to the broader faces of the Alpines and Neo-Danubians among whom most of them live.
It has been remarked by some anthropologists that the Jews look "Armenoid," and that this Armenoid appearance must be due either to Hittite admixture or to a sojourn in Asia Minor before their arrival in Europe. This remark implies a misunderstanding of Jewish history as well as of the nature of the Armenoid race. Many Ashkenazic Jews, it is true, possess the combination of a brachycephalic head with a narrow face and convex nose, but there is not enough Alpine in the Jewish body to make this Dinaricization prevalent or standard. It is found among blond as well as brunet Jews, and is an individual rather than a group phenomenon.
The straight-nosed, more typically Mediterranean form, such as is represented by the actors Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor, is much commoner.
Al Jolson
Eddie Cantor
There can be no doubt that the original Mediterranean blend of Palestine is the most important.
carnby.altervista.org/troe/12-20.htm
...a straight-nosed, presumably Atlanto-Mediterranean element contributed by the Philistines.
carnby.altervista.org/troe/p-44.htm
This is an Atlanto-Mediterranean racial type which is also prevalent in other Balkan countries. It may also be sorted out of available statistical series of Greeks.
carnby.altervista.org/troe/12-13.htm
The Philistines
The Philistines were a people who occupied the southern coast of Canaan, their territory being named Philistia in later contexts. It is theorized that the latter Philistines originated among the "sea peoples". Modern archaeology has also suggested early cultural links with the Mycenean world in Greece.
Philistine origins are traced to the arrival as conquerors of*group of people on the coast of Canaan and Gaza. They were culturally related to the Mycenean or proto-Greek world and came from a point of origin in the Aegean thought by most scholars to have been Crete.
In the Bible, Deuteronomy 2:23 records that the Caphtorites came from Crete, destroyed the Avvites and usurped their land. The Talmud (Chullin 60b) notes that the Avvites were the original Philistine people in the days of Abraham while the Philistines of later times were descended from the conquering Caphtorites.
According to the Bible, the Philistines made frequent incursions against the Israelites. There was almost perpetual war between the two peoples. After their defeat by the Hebrew king David.
The Philistines disappear as a distinct group by the late fifth century BCE. Subsequently the mixed people of the former Philstine cities were converted to Judaism by the Hasmoneans.
It has been suggested that the Caphtorite Philistines formed part of the "Sea Peoples" who repeatedly attacked Egypt during the later Nineteenth Dynasty.
Archaeology
The connection between Mycenaean culture and Philistine culture was made clearer by finds at the excavation of Ashdod, Ekron, Ashkelon, and more recently Gath, four of the five Philistine cities in Canaan. Especially notable is the early Philistine pottery, a locally made version of the Aegean Mycenaean Late Helladic IIIC pottery. In the floor of the hall is a circular hearth paved with pebbles, as is typical in Mycenean megaron hall buildings;Such wheels are known to have been used for portable cultic stands in the Aegean region during this period.
Pelasgians
One name the Greeks used for the previous inhabitants of Greece and the Aegean was Pelasgians, but no definite connection has been established between this name and that of the Philistines. The theory that the Sea Peoples included Greek-speaking tribes has been developed even further to postulate that the Philistines originated in either western Anatolia or the Greek peninsula.
Culture and religion
The deities they worshiped were Baal, Astarte and Dagon, whose names or variations thereof appear in the Canaanite pantheon as well.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philistines
An integral part of the racial history of Mediterranean peoples is that of the Jews, who have spread widely throughout the world, and whose cultural position within the ranks of the white race is unique. Since the Jews are basically Mediterranean in race, the first segment, and that portion of the second which deals with the Mediterranean world, merit consideration in the present chapter.
The Children of Israel, who formed the basic stock of the present-day Jews, lived continuously and exclusively in Palestine from about 1200 B.C.
The Phiistines, who were a branch of the western sea-peoples who harried Egypt and the whole eastern end of the Mediterranean about 1200 B.C., the time of the Trojan War, and who may have come from the general neighborhood of the Aegean.
The Philistines are represented as straight-nosed, European-looking Mediterraneans, with light skins;
Philistines. (Egyptian.)
Jews. (Babylonian.)
Ancient Jew
The exact origin of the Children of Israel who entered Palestine and fought the Philistines, and who founded a Jewish kingdom.
The Philistines of the coastal settlements resisted this process the longest.
The second Jewish diaspora was the stream of migration of Jews which followed the expansion of Hellenism; it began with Alexander and his successors, and continued under the Byzantine Empire. Although Jews spread to the entire Hellenistic and Byzantine worlds, there were two main centers (aside from Egypt,43<> Syria, and Asia Minor), in which these Hellenistic Jews were concentrated; (a) the Balkans, and (b) the northern shore of the Black Sea. Both of these Jewish centers were established well before the Christian era. On the north shore of the Black Sea the greatest Jewish concentration point was the Crimea, where Jews went with the Greeks after the days of Alexander. The Hellenistic and Byzantine Jews of what is now southern Russia sustained the invasions of the Goths and of the Huns without dislodgement; in the seventh century A.D. they met the invasions of the Tatars. The rise of the Khazar kingdom, a Tatar state, was of some importance in Jewish history, for in 740 A.D. the reigning family and a few of the upper class of the Khazars were converted to Judaism.
(b) The Sephardim, who are most numerous in the Balkan states and the Near East, but who also live in scattered colonies on both shores of the Mediterranean Sea, and who have emigrated in some numbers to both North and South America.
The Sephardic Jews of Salonika and of Turkey in Europe differ from the North African ones only in possessing the mesocephalic cephalic index of 78; they are predominantly straight-nosed, and partly blond in one-sixth of the group.
carnby.altervista.org/troe/11-07.htm
This Jewish racial entity is almost purely Mediterranean, and is the result of the combining of several Mediterranean types in Palestine and elsewhere during the courses of Jewish history.
They are almost all brunet-white in skin color.
The Jews of Asia Minor are descendants of the Byzantine Jews, reënforced by many Sephardim.
The physical composition of the central European Jewish body has not been difficult to determine. The Ashkenazim are a reasonably uniform people in a statistical sense; furthermore, many of their metrical characters, as far as we know them, are not markedly different from those of their Mediterranean Jewish ancestors. The facial diameters, for example, relate them closely to the Mediterranean prototype., in strong contrast to the broader faces of the Alpines and Neo-Danubians among whom most of them live.
It has been remarked by some anthropologists that the Jews look "Armenoid," and that this Armenoid appearance must be due either to Hittite admixture or to a sojourn in Asia Minor before their arrival in Europe. This remark implies a misunderstanding of Jewish history as well as of the nature of the Armenoid race. Many Ashkenazic Jews, it is true, possess the combination of a brachycephalic head with a narrow face and convex nose, but there is not enough Alpine in the Jewish body to make this Dinaricization prevalent or standard. It is found among blond as well as brunet Jews, and is an individual rather than a group phenomenon.
The straight-nosed, more typically Mediterranean form, such as is represented by the actors Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor, is much commoner.
Al Jolson
Eddie Cantor
There can be no doubt that the original Mediterranean blend of Palestine is the most important.
carnby.altervista.org/troe/12-20.htm
...a straight-nosed, presumably Atlanto-Mediterranean element contributed by the Philistines.
carnby.altervista.org/troe/p-44.htm
This is an Atlanto-Mediterranean racial type which is also prevalent in other Balkan countries. It may also be sorted out of available statistical series of Greeks.
carnby.altervista.org/troe/12-13.htm
The Philistines
The Philistines were a people who occupied the southern coast of Canaan, their territory being named Philistia in later contexts. It is theorized that the latter Philistines originated among the "sea peoples". Modern archaeology has also suggested early cultural links with the Mycenean world in Greece.
Philistine origins are traced to the arrival as conquerors of*group of people on the coast of Canaan and Gaza. They were culturally related to the Mycenean or proto-Greek world and came from a point of origin in the Aegean thought by most scholars to have been Crete.
In the Bible, Deuteronomy 2:23 records that the Caphtorites came from Crete, destroyed the Avvites and usurped their land. The Talmud (Chullin 60b) notes that the Avvites were the original Philistine people in the days of Abraham while the Philistines of later times were descended from the conquering Caphtorites.
According to the Bible, the Philistines made frequent incursions against the Israelites. There was almost perpetual war between the two peoples. After their defeat by the Hebrew king David.
The Philistines disappear as a distinct group by the late fifth century BCE. Subsequently the mixed people of the former Philstine cities were converted to Judaism by the Hasmoneans.
It has been suggested that the Caphtorite Philistines formed part of the "Sea Peoples" who repeatedly attacked Egypt during the later Nineteenth Dynasty.
Archaeology
The connection between Mycenaean culture and Philistine culture was made clearer by finds at the excavation of Ashdod, Ekron, Ashkelon, and more recently Gath, four of the five Philistine cities in Canaan. Especially notable is the early Philistine pottery, a locally made version of the Aegean Mycenaean Late Helladic IIIC pottery. In the floor of the hall is a circular hearth paved with pebbles, as is typical in Mycenean megaron hall buildings;Such wheels are known to have been used for portable cultic stands in the Aegean region during this period.
Pelasgians
One name the Greeks used for the previous inhabitants of Greece and the Aegean was Pelasgians, but no definite connection has been established between this name and that of the Philistines. The theory that the Sea Peoples included Greek-speaking tribes has been developed even further to postulate that the Philistines originated in either western Anatolia or the Greek peninsula.
Culture and religion
The deities they worshiped were Baal, Astarte and Dagon, whose names or variations thereof appear in the Canaanite pantheon as well.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philistines