Interestingly, the other group to be made ashes, the Tjeker, also settled along the coast of Canaan, north of the area occupied by the Philistines. In the Wen-Amon tale (c. 1100 B.C.), they controlled Dor, about 15 miles south of Haifa and were ruled by a prince named Beder (see Wilson, Egyptian Myths, Tales, and Mortuary Texts, in Pritchard, ANET, p. 26).
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