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...That fact in itself offers additional information about Philistine culture. “When they came, they did not have any kind of taboo or prohibition against marrying into other groups around them,” Master says. Nor, it would seem, did other groups categorically have that taboo about them, either. 

Is it surprising that a Philistine culture no longer exists? We are witnesses to what results Melt-Potting has brought to the entire region.

It was not quite the typical sort of "melting pot" that brought the end to the Philistines, but rather a somewhat involuntary one:
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“[...] the commercial activities of this Neo-Assyrian vassal city-state [Ekron], now under the influence of Egypt, were abruptly cut short with the invasion of Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar in 603/4 B.C. [70]”
 
[Footnote:]
[70] Gitin, “Philistia in Transition,” 179-80; for this activity against Ashkelon, see Lawrence E. Stager, “Ashkelon and the Archaeology of Destruction: Kislev 604 BCE,” Eretz-Israel, 25 (1996):61–64; idem., “The Fury of Babylon: Ashkelon and the Archaeology of Destruction,” Biblical Archaeology Review, 22/1 (1996):56–69, 76–77.

 
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“A massive destruction level evidenced by tumbled columns, thousands of smashed storage vessels, and collapsed upper floors of the monumental temple and throughout the site attest to the destructive force of the invading Babylonians. Other Philistine cities, such as Ashkelon, Ashdod, and Timnah, suffered similar destructions at the hand of the Babylonians. Unable to regain momentum, and with its cultural core lost, Philistine culture, too, collapsed. Its people, either dispersed or deported, were quickly assimilated into the surrounding cultures. [71]”
 
[Footnote:]
[71] Gitin, “Ekron of the Philistines,” 22; Gitin, Dothan, and Naveh, “Royal Dedicatory Inscription,” 3; For another view on the process of acculturation, see B. Stone, “The Philistines and Acculturation: Culture, Change, and Ethnic Continuity in the Iron Age,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 298 (1995):7-32

 
Extract source:
See Page 13 of:
“New Discoveries Among the Philistines: Archaeological and Textual Considerations”
by Michael G. Hasel - Southern Adventist University:
https://www.southern.edu/archaeology/Doc...veries.pdf

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