The Bronze Age Collapse and the Sea Peoples crisis are documented almost entirely from the Egyptian perspective, and to a lesser extent from the cuneiform records of the Levant.

The people who are described as the threat — the Peleset, the Shardana, the Shekelesh, the Denyen and the others — left no written records from this period in their own voice.

The Hebrew Bible, written centuries later, preserves memories of the Philistines as adversaries of Samson, David, and Saul — but these texts reflect the perspective of the Iron Age Israelites, not the Philistines themselves.

The Philistines in the Bible are villains and threats, their perspective never given.