Palestine The name Palestine is not found in the Bible. It has had a variety of meanings. Nelsons Bible Dictionary tells us how the word was first used: The word itself originally identified the region as the land of the Philistines, a war-like tribe that inhabited much of the region alongside the Hebrew people. But the older name for Palestine was CANAAN, the term most frequently used in the Old Testament. The term Palestine as a name for the entire land of Canaan, beyond the coastal plains of the Phoenicians, was first used by the fifth century B. C. historian Herodotus. After the Jewish revolt of A. D. 135, the Romans replaced the Latin name Judea with the Latin Palaestina as their name for this province. As you can see, the name is actually an insult to the Jewish people, denying the name Israel, which it once had, and going back to the Philistines, their earlier opponents. Before the rebirth of the Nation of Israel in 1948, the name Palestine was virtually synonymous with The Holy Land. Most writers from the time printed books were first introduced until this generation used the term in a non-political sense for the entire region of the Bible lands. Palestine was a well defined area at the end of World War II. The modern nation of Jordan was carved out of the larger portion of Palestine, and the remainder was the area now known once again as the nation of Israel. Today the name Palestine has a different meaning with highly political
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