Philistines as Sea Peoples, Etc.

[Ernest P. Moyer]

Stanley Friesen wrote:

> At 10:05 PM 2/5/01 -0600, David L. White wrote:
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>>          And while I am on the subject I might as well note that even if
>> "Tursha"-"Troy"-"Etruria" and so on are the same word, the people in
>> question might no more be the same than are the various people called
>> "Welsh"-"Vlach"-Waloon", and so on.

> The association of the Turshas/Teresh with the Etruscans is an old and
> respectable idea (mentioned in my 1980 reference), though certainly not
> proven.  It is certainly conceivable as the Sea People era as a time of
> considerable relocations, much like the later Volkerwanderung around the
> time of the collapse of Rome.  Thus the idea that a tribe called Turshas,
> perhaps from Anatolia, joined a coalition of peoples attacking the major
> empires of the time, and then resettled in Etruria is quite *reasonable*
> (much like many of the Suevi resettled in north-western Spain when Rome
> abandoned it, leaving a remnant behind to become the Schwabians in Germany).

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It is my understanding that the "Etruscans" and their contemporaries called
them Ratsenna.  Isn't application of the name "Etruria" from outside, and
later, and hence not evidence for the supposed correlation with Turshas/Teresh?

Ernest Moyer