Editing Philistines (section)

===''phyle histia'' theory===

Allen Jones (1972 & 1975) suggests that the name ''Philistine'' represents a corruption of the Greek ''[[phyle]]-histia'' ('tribe of the [[hearth]]'), with the [[Ionic Greek|Ionic]] spelling of ''[[hestia]]''.<ref>{{harvnb|Jones|1972|pp=343–350}}.</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Jones |first=Allen H. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P2FtAAAAMAAJ |title=Bronze Age Civilization: The Philistines and the Danites |date=1975 |publisher=Public Affairs Press |isbn=978-0-685-57333-4 |pages=VI |language=en}}</ref> Stephanos Vogazianos (1993) states that Jones "only answers problems by analogy and he mainly speculates" but notes that the root ''[[phyle]]'' may not at all be out of place.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Vogazianos |first=Stephanos |date=1994 |title=The philistine emergence and its possible bearing on the appearance and activities of Aegean invaders in the east Mediterranean area at the end of the Mycenaean period |url=https://lekythos.library.ucy.ac.cy/handle/10797/6375 |journal=Archaeologia Cypria |publisher=[[University of Cyprus]] |volume=3 |issue=14 |page=31 |issn=0257-1951}}</ref> Regarding this theory, [[Israel Finkelstein]] & [[Nadav Na'aman]] (1994) note the hearth constructions which have been discovered at [[Tell Qasile]] and [[Ekron]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Finkelstein |first1=Israel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q75tAAAAMAAJ |title=From Nomadism to Monarchy: Archaeological and Historical Aspects of Early Israel |last2=Na'aman |first2=Nadav |date=1994 |publisher=Ben Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East |isbn=978-1-880317-20-4 |page=336 |language=en}}</ref>