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    Philistines rejected John Milton's Samson

    Publishers rejected John Milton's Samson submitted under different name

    http://ecclesiastes911.net/philistin...iltons_samson/



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    Philistines ? They were no more long before 1877 , lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by oyarde View Post
    Philistines ? They were no more long before 1877 , lol
    phil·is·tine
    ˈfiləˌstēn,-ˌstīn/
    noun
    noun: philistine; plural noun: philistines

    1.
    a person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts, or who has no understanding of them.
    "I am a complete philistine when it comes to paintings"

    adjective
    adjective: philistine

    1.
    hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts.
    "a philistine government"

    Origin
    early 19th century: from Philistine, originally with reference to a confrontation between university students and townspeople in Jena, Germany, in the late 17th century; a sermon on the conflict quoted “the Philistines are upon you” (Judges 16), which led to an association between the townspeople and those hostile to culture.

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    You want to know who they were , your going to need to go further back than that .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dickens View Post

    Origin
    early 19th century: .
    Ah,,, no.

    Much much earlier.

    but as far as modern interpretation, and artistic license,,,

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    Quote Originally Posted by oyarde View Post
    You want to know who they were , your going to need to go further back than that .
    The dictionary entry that I posted mentions the book of Judges. You do not read the posts you comment on.

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    Philistine was revised to Palestine by Constantine.

    On topic, OMG publishers rejected a good manuscript! First time in the history of the world!!!

    Also how many of the publishers recognized it as blatant plagiarism and politely declined on face saving grounds?

    http://www.literaryrejections.com/be...ally-rejected/
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    I have no exact date that the Book Of Judges was written , but I am fairly certain that the settlements of Ashdod , Ashkelon , Ekron , Garth and Gaza predate it by a great deal and had been there for quite some time prior.



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    Quote Originally Posted by idiom View Post
    Philistine was revised to Palestine by Constantine.
    The book of Judges still says Philistine. However the point of the title was as follows. Philistines (of the book of Judges) blinded Samson. Now the other philistines (in the sense used by the students of Jena; Is this the first time you encountered the word philistine in this meaning?) rejected Milton's Samson.

    Quote Originally Posted by idiom View Post
    On topic, OMG publishers rejected a good manuscript! First time in the history of the world!!!
    How do you know that the manuscript was good when it was rejected? Is it better than other rejected manuscripts?

    Quote Originally Posted by idiom View Post
    Also how many of the publishers recognized it as blatant plagiarism and politely declined on face saving grounds?
    If you read the article you will know that none.

    And here are more cases of classics in disguise rejected by the publishers

    http://ecclesiastes911.net/publisher...s_in_disguise/

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    Philistine is just as racist a term as Vandal. Besides, Samson wasn't a preacher, he didn't perform acts of grace, all the Philistines ever got from him was homicidal mania in the form of one man killing sprees.

    I still don't get your shock at publishers turning down manuscripts.

    Also even works that were great at the time don't age well without the prior reputation. That something was ground breaking a century or two ago, makes it very archaic today. The state of the art of writing moves on.

    If you submitted lesser known works of chaucer or shakespeare, who is going to try and even read that?

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