The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 7, 24 June 2018
The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 6, 17 June 2018 Track One: I Samuel 17:(1a, 4-11, 19-23), 32-49 Psalm 9:9-20 Or I Samuel 17:57-18:5, 10-16 Psalm 133 Track Two: Job 38:1-11 Psalm 107:1-3, 23-32 II Corinthians 6:1-13 St. Mark 4:35-41 Background: Philistines We meet the Philistines at several points in the Hebrew Scriptures. There is the so-called “ Table of Nations ” in Genesis, but prior to that we have evidence at Rameses III’s temple at Medinet Habu. There they are called the peleset, a similar word exists in the Hebrew, p’léšet. In Genesis they are friendly to Abraham and seem to be differentiated from the bellicose peoples identified in the Deuteronomic history. They seem to have originated in the Aegean and settled along the Mediterranean coast of modern day Palestine. Their principle cities were Gaza, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Edron, and Gath. Archaeological evidence seems to suggest an intermarriage of these peop...