Endnote 11 – When Palestine Meant Israel

Philistieim: Septuagint Genesis 26:1, 14, 15, 18; Exodus 23:31. Also Septuagint Joshua 13:2–3. Gê ton Philistieim: Septuagint Genesis 21:32, 34; Exodus 13:17. Elsewhere in the later books of the Septuagint Bible, which were translated subsequently from the Hebrew, the Philistines are referred to as the allophyloi (strangers); see Emanuel Tov, “The Septuagint,” in Martin J. Mulder and Harry Sysling, eds., Mikra: Text, Translation, Reading and Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity (Assen: Van Gorcum, 1988), p. 169.