This find was entirely within Israel, so why didn't they just say so.
Wikipedia is NOT some benign academic source.
Wikipedia sucks as much as google search.
It’s hard to see how a term that encompasses a region from Turkey to the Euphrates was created just to deny Israel.
This find was entirely within Israel, so why didn't they just say so.
From the way I read it, they were saying that such a archaeological find that they were referring to was rarely found in the Levant as a whole which, as defined, covers a larger area than Israel.
Wikipedia is NOT some benign academic source.
Fair enough. If you can find an alternative definition of Levant from a Bible dictionary or other authoritative source that says something different, please share it with us.
>>Yes, but the purpose of its use is to deny Israel.
Not necessarily, if the term is restricted to an archaeological context. Especially in this instance where the amphitheater was built AFTER the Roman destruction of Jerusalem and their renaming of Judea.
>>Wikipedia is NOT some benign academic source.
True, but wikipedia, in this case, was just quoting ‘The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant’