The Philistines and Aegean Migration at the End of the Late Bronze Age

Assaf Yasur-Landau is Senior Researcher at the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies, Haifa University. He has edited three volumes and published numerous articles on the the archaeology of the Levant and interactions between the Aegean world and the Levant, including the Philistine migration, with an emphasis on the investigation of the personal lives of ancient people.

• Introduction; 1. The archaeological identification of migration and other ranges of interregional interactions; 2. Setting the scene: the Mycenaean palatial culture and the outside world; 3. The twelfth-century-BCE Aegean: political and social background; 4. Preconditions for migration; 5. Along the routes; 6. Strictly business? The southern Levant and the Aegean in the thirteenth to the early twelfth century BCE; 7. The material culture change in the twelfth-century Philistia; 8. The Philistine society and the settlement process; 9. A short history of the Aegean immigration to the Levant.

'This book is published exactly one hundred years after the first book on the Philistines - a book by the British archaeologist R. A. St Macalister (The Philistines, 1911). While Macalister had very few sources at his disposal, Yasur-Landau can reply on extensive archaeological research as well as on a large body of literature, including the books published by Moshe and Trude Dothan published between 1967 and 2006.' International Review of Biblical Studies