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A people who originated in the Aegean and migrated eastward through the Hittite empire to the coast of Canaan, the Philistines serve as an example of a large migratory movement that brought outsiders into Palestine in the late 13th or early 12th century B.C.E. Professor Gottwald, however, does not think the Israelites emerge from a similar mass migration from outside Palestine.