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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

I think that way back when the Romans over ran Judea and burned the Temple, they changed the name from Judea to Palestine...to punish the Jews.

In history since then, the Roman ‘misnomer’ has bounced back and forth until the place and its name became ‘Israel’, after WWII

I could be wrong


2 posted on 10/16/2023 6:53:01 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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To: SMARTY

Yes, there was no “Palestine” in the days of Isaiah. So the word that is translated there is surely more like “Philistia”... land of the Philistines.


5 posted on 10/16/2023 6:56:02 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: SMARTY

“I think that way back when the Romans over ran Judea and burned the Temple, they changed the name from Judea to Palestine...to punish the Jews.”
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Actually, the name of the Roman province called Judea was changed to Philistia starting around the year 135, after the unsuccessful Bar Kockba revolt. This was done to punish the Jews, by naming their very land after their ancient enemy, the philistines. Philistia has, over the ensuing, centuries, been bastardized to Palestine.


9 posted on 10/16/2023 7:01:45 AM PDT by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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