Re: Odp: Just Joined, got lots of questions -help?

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 374
Date: 1999-12-01

 
----- Original Message -----
From: Alexander Stolbov
To: cybalist@egroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 11:29 PM
Subject: [cybalist] Re: Just Joined, got lots of questions -help?

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> Anyway, what can linguistics say about the Philistines' origins?
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There is a hypothesis: Philistines = Pelasgians.

Alexander
This is a case of 'obscurum per obscurius'. Do we know more about the Pelasgians than about the Philistines?
I don't want to say the equation is impossible, but even if we accept it we're still in the dark.
 
Piotr