亚述语名称 pi-lis-te（又作 pilistu palashtu、pilistu、pi-lis-te、pa-laas- ta-a-a、pilishti、pilishtu、pilistu、pilisti、pilistin）指的是一片从加沙延伸到滕塔尔的地区，其内陆范围可能大得多。亚述语的 filisti、filistin 和 palashtu 是这一名称的亚述拼写形式，使用情况不一。或许应当将其与以下亚述行省区分开来：滕塔尔（从滕塔尔到阿卡）、Magiddu（مجیدو；位于耶斯列平原／Marj ibn ‘Amer）、Samerina（中部高地）、西拿基立的耶路撒冷（包括拉吉士），以及可能存在的其他地区。在六个世纪的时间里，这些名称只见于少数几份亚述铭文之中。

The Assyrian name pi-lis-te (also pilistu palashtu, pilistu, pi-lis-te, pa-laas- ta-a-a, pilishti, pilishtu, pilistu, pilisti, pilistin) referred to an area that runs from Gaza to Tantur, and may include much larger areas inland. The Assyrian filisti, filistin and palashtu are Assyrian spellings of this name which are used variously. Perhaps it should be distinguished from the Assyrian provinces of Tantur (Tantur to Akka), Magiddu ( مجیدو ; in the Jezreel valley/ Marj ibn ‘Amer), Samerina (the central highlands) and Sennacherib’s Jerusalem (including Lakhish) and possibly other regions. Over a period of six centuries, these names were found on a handful of Assyrian inscriptions.

《旧约》中提到“非利士人之地”。在《圣经》里，地中海也被称为“非利士人之海”（出埃及记）。

The Old Testament talks about a ‘land of the Plishtim’. In the Bible the Mediterranean Sea was also known as the ‘Sea of the Philistines’ (Exod.

23:31），以地中海沿岸大片地区的居民命名。在《旧约》中，非利士人被称为Plishtim，其地中海领土被称为Pleshet：非利士地（撒上）。

23:31), named after the people occupying a large portion of the shores of the Mediterranean. The Philistines were known in the Old Testament as Plishtim and their Mediterranean territory as Pleshet: Philistia (1 Sam.

17:36;2 Sam. 1:20;Judg. 14:3;Amos 1:8)。大多数美国和以色列的圣经学者认为,这一Peleset即是经过一定历史化处理、但最终源自圣经的“非利士人之地”;也就是说,至少指从加沙到坦图尔的沿海地区。

17:36; 2 Sam. 1:20; Judg. 14:3; Amos 1:8). Most American and Israeli biblical scholars identify this Peleset with a somewhat historicised, but ultimately biblical ‘land of the Philistines’; that is, at least the coastal region from Gaza to Tantur.

这些好战的神话叙事——即《约书亚记》《申命记》和《撒母耳记》——为现代犹太复国主义的定居者民族主义提供了“征服迦南地”及消灭当地原住民的强硬、军事化和暴力的维度。《士师记》也为犹太复国主义提供了另一种军国主义传统：与非利士人（真实或想象中的）斗争相关的“圣战”故事，以及以色列英雄参孙与狡诈的大利拉的叙事，大利拉为加沙的非利士人背叛了参孙（士16）。

The militant myth-narratives of the Books of Joshua, Deuteronomy and Samuel have provided modern Zionist settler-nationalism with the muscular, militaristic and violent dimensions of the ‘conquest of the land of Cana’an’ and elimination of its indigenous people. The Book of Judges has also given Zionism another militarist tradition: the ‘holy war’ stories associated with the (real or imagined) struggle against the Philistines, and the narrative of Samson (an Israelite hero) and cunning Delilah, who betrayed Samson on behalf of the Philistines of Gaza (Judg. 16).

Philistia της Late Bronze Age και της Iron Age κυριαρχούνταν από τους Φιλισταίους... (note: the target language is Chinese, so correcting that) 非利士地区在青铜时代晚期和铁器时代由非利士人主导，并发展成为一个独特的地缘政治实体，拥有密切的国际贸易联系、独特的经济体系以及精致的城市环境。非利士人——据《旧约》记载，他们统治着非利士著名的五城邦，即迦萨、亚实基伦、亚实突、以革伦和迦特（Niesiołowski-Spanò 2011: 38）——是一个高度先进的民族，然而几个世纪以来，他们在《旧约》书卷与故事中被持续负面地描绘，饱受其害。从歌利亚到大利拉，他们在新兴的以色列民族叙事神话中，被塑造成天生邪恶的他者形象（McDonagh 2004）。在《旧约》中，非利士人被建构为一种典型的意识形态替罪羊（McDonagh 2004）。

Philistia of the late Bronze Age and Iron Age was dominated by the Philistines and evolved into a distinct geo-political entity with strong international trade links, a distinct economy and a sophisticated urban environment. The Philistines – a highly advanced people who, according to the Old Testament, ruled five famed Pentapoli of Philistia: Gaza, Ascalon, Ashdod, Ekron and Gath (Niesiołowski-Spanò 2011: 38) – have, for centuries, suffered under the weight of their relentlessly negative portrayal in the books and stories of the Old Testament. From Goliath to Delilah, they have personified the intrinsically evil Other in the burgeoning narrative myth of the nation of Israel (McDonagh 2004). In the Old Testament, the Philistines were constructed as a typical ideological scapegoat (McDonagh 2004).

现代欧洲的种族主义，以及圣经中对非利士人的构想和偏见，在现代西方术语的贬义和冒犯性含义中延续了下来："philistine"一词指的是对文化一无所知，或以自满的态度敌视文化的人"（Eban 1984: 45；Rose 2004: 17；McDonagh 2004）。

Modern European racism and biblical constructs and prejudices towards the Philistines have survived in the derogatory and offensive connotation of the modern Western term: ‘a philistine is a person ignorant of, or smugly hostile to, culture’ (Eban 1984: 45; Rose 2004: 17; McDonagh 2004).

近来有一些亲以色列的复国主义来源似乎提出，"p-l-s-t"（"Peleset"；非利士人）所指的地区大致相当于今天的加沙地带。事实上，与这些宣传性说法相反，从青铜时代晚期和铁器时代I期（约公元前1200年）开始，Peleset人与居住在巴勒斯坦地中海沿岸地区的其他当地民族相互混居，这一地区北起Tantur，南至加沙。很可能，Peleset人的土地还向北延伸至迦密山。Tantur是Tantura的通用英文名称。这个小型巴勒斯坦港口城镇（在1948年巴勒斯坦大灾难中人口被迁空）位于海法以南，地中海沿岸，距海法35公里，距以色列城镇Zikhron Yaakov（建于1882年）西北8公里。附近的Tantura（Tantur）是考古学家所称的Tel Dor或Dora的古老遗址。Tantur曾是亚述Tantura省的中心，并在大约一个世纪的时间里控制着北至阿卡的沿海地区。约公元前1100年，非利士人将其内陆领土向东扩展，包括Beisan城（后称Scythopolis），这是一座位于约旦河与Esdraelon平原（阿拉伯语：Marj Ibn ‘Amer）交汇处的重要战略城市。"p-l-s-t之地"（"Peleset"，"非利士人"）的沿海区域广大，北自Tantur，南至加沙，并包括大片内陆地区，这表明"Peleset之地"比今天的加沙地带大十五至二十倍，涵盖大特拉维夫的大部分地区，即以色列都会区，其中包括Holon和Petah Tikva两城，后者在复国主义史学中被称为Im Hamoshavot，即"殖民地之母"。

There are recent pro-Zionist sources which seem to suggest that ‘p-l-s-t’ (‘Peleset’; Philistines) was an area corresponding roughly to today’s Gaza region. In fact, contrary to these propagandistic claims, from the Late Bronze Age onwards and the beginning of the Iron Age I (about 1200 BC), the Peleset intermingled with other local populations inhabiting the Mediterranean coastal region of Palestine, from Gaza in the south to Tantur in the north. In all probability, the land of the Peleset extended further north to Mount Carmel. Tantur is the normal international English name for Tantura. This small Palestinian harbour town (depopulated in the Palestinian Nakba of 19488) is located south of Haifa and 8 kilometres north-west of the Israeli town of Zikhron Yaakov (founded in 1882) on the Mediterranean coast, 35 kilometres south of Haifa. Nearby Tantura (Tantur) is the ancient site referred to as Tel Dor, or Dora, by archaeologists. Tantur was the centre of the Assyrian province of Tantura and controlled the coast north to Acre for about a century. Around 1100 BC the Philistines expanded their inland territory eastwards to include the city of Beisan (later Scythopolis), an important strategic city located at the junction of the Jordan River and the Plain of Esdraelon (Arabic: Marj Ibn ‘Amer). The large extent of the coastal region of the ‘land of p-l-s-t’ (‘Peleset’, ‘Philistines’), from Tantur in the north to Gaza in the south and including vast areas inland, suggests that the ‘land of the Peleset’ was fifteen to twenty times larger than the current Gaza Strip, encompassing much of greater Tel Aviv, the Israeli metropolitan area, which includes the cities of Holon and Petah Tikva, the latter known in Zionist historiography as Im Hamoshavot, the ‘Mother of the Colonies’.

特拉维夫是一座从其母城——古老的巴勒斯坦城市雅法——中生长出来、随后又将其吞并的城市。1948年，雅法的原住居民被成批驱逐出境（Rotbard 2015）。特拉维夫都会区据耶路撒冷希伯来大学的阿维夏伊·马格利特（Avishai Margalit）所言，从来不是犹太民族的历史家园（Margalit, A. 1991），如今却是以色列最大的城市群，拥有370万居民，占全国人口的40%以上。

Tel Aviv is a city which grew out of and then consumed its parent, the ancient Palestinian city of Jaffa, whose indigenous inhabitants were driven out en masse in 1948 (Rotbard 2015). The Tel Aviv metropolitan area, which, according to Avishai Margalit (of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem), had never been the historic homeland of the Jewish people (Margalit, A. 1991), constitutes Israel’s largest conurbation with 3,700,000 residents, over 40 per cent of the country’s population.

总体而言，以色列定居者殖民的集体记忆将古代非利士人与现代说阿拉伯语的巴勒斯坦人联系在一起。在1948年针对巴勒斯坦人的战争中，犹太复国主义的种族清洗手段显然采用并改编了参孙对非利士人“圣战”的传说叙事。为此，以色列官方将其1948年的一支主要突击部队命名为“参孙之狐”（Shu'alei Shimshon）；该部队隶属于参与驱逐巴勒斯坦人行动的吉瓦蒂旅。

Overall Israeli settler-colonial collective memory links the ancient Philistines with the modern Arabic-speaking people of Palestine. Zionist ethnic cleansing tactics in the 1948 War against the Palestinians evidently adopted and adapted the legendary narrative of Samson’s ‘sacred war’ against the Philistines. To do this, the Israelis officially named one of their key 1948 commando units Samson’s Foxes (Shu’alei Shimshon); it operated within the Givati Brigade which took part in the expulsion of the Palestinians.

此外，一支同名的秘密侦察营——“参孙之狐”——于2002年由以色列军队重新组建，以支持其对加沙地带的占领。以色列的（圣经主义者）集体记忆将这一地区与古代非利士人联系在一起。以色列陆军南部司令部的狐狸标志，同样旨在培养这种集体意识，并激发以色列人对巴勒斯坦土著人民的斗争。

Furthermore, a secret reconnaissance battalion of the same name, Samson’s Foxes, was re-established by the Israeli army in 2002, to back its occupation of the Gaza Strip, a region to which Israeli (biblicist) collective memory links to the ancient Philistines. The fox logo of the Israeli Army’s Southern Command is also designed to foster the same collective and Israeli struggle against the indigenous people of Palestine.