Footnote 1 – How Did the Philistines Enter Canaan? A Rejoinder

To give just one example (see Anson F. Rainey, “Rainey’s Challenge,” BAR 17:06) In the famous Israel Stela we find that “Ashkelon has been overcome. Gezer has been captured. Yano’am was made nonexistent.” No one would take these diverse statements to indicate any difference between the fate of the three Canaanite cities.