PHILISTINE RELIGION. The original arrival of the Philistines to the Near East seems to have occurred during the end of the thirteenth century BCE as the waves of the "Sea Peoples"—so called in Egyptian texts—appeared in the...
The Philistines (Hebrew פלשתים, plishtim) (see "other uses" below) were a people who inhabited the southern coast of Canaan, their territory being named Philistia in later contexts. Their origin has been debated among scholars, but modern...
Because of the popularity of Delilah's "Mon cur s'ouvre a ta voix", Saint-Saens's biblical opera is widely thought of as an orgy of sensuality. It is nothing of the kind. With the composer's extraordinary ear for every kind of music - the score virtually...
I sometimes ponder the fate of the religious brother of my secular, Zionist grandmother. In 1936 she migrated to Palestine; however, he was forbidden from doing so by his rabbi. The Jewish state, claimed the rabbi, must not be rebuilt before the coming of...
Question 1 of 10:Arising in the 18th Century, the Industrial Revolution was kickstarted by which burgeoning British industry?Coal Cotton OilSilkQuestion 2 of 10:Which world-changing inventor patented the modern steam engine in 1769? Michael Faraday Isaac Singer James Watt Guglielmo Marconi...
The Sky's the Limit: Passion and Property in Manhattan, by Steven Gaines. Little, Brown and Company, 271 pages, $26.95. Real-estate gossip is the fuel of dinner-party banter between obsessed Manhattanites: bidding wars and co-op boards, the clash of wealth, fame and power. Sure, today's cocky...
