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The Philistines were neither Canaanite or Hebrew, but Aegean from the islands near Crete.

After they settled the coast of Canaan in the 12th century BC, they began to adopt the Canaanite lifestyle, religion, language and writing system. They were more Canaanite than Hebrew.

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