English Deutsch Français Italiano Español Português 繁體中文 Bahasa Indonesia Tiếng Việt ภาษาไทย
All categories

Please be sure give the sources to support your answer.

2007-12-03 13:46:50 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities History

4 answers

ancient Israel

2007-12-03 14:12:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

After putting down Jewish revolts against Roman colonization, especially the Bar Kochba uprising, the Romans sought to destroy Israel, and even destroy the memory and the name of land...much as Rome had effectively done to Carthage around 200 years prior.

Under the Roman emperor Hadrian, Jerusalem was renamed "Aelia" and the land renamed "Syria Palestina" after the long-extinct Philistines.

The Philistines had been an ancient enemy of the Jews. They were a brutish Greek tribe who lived along the Gaza coast.
(Goliath of "David and Goliath" was a Philistine.)

This Roman strategy was an attempt to destroy the Jewish homeland plus add insult to the Jews at the same time.

2007-12-04 11:48:47 · answer #2 · answered by mo mosh 6 · 0 0

there is no ancient palestine. the romans gave the land of lsrael this name when they destroyed israel.

2007-12-03 13:55:30 · answer #3 · answered by robby c 2 · 2 0

The only thing that is certain is that the land was inhabited before the Isrealis arrived

2007-12-03 17:29:36 · answer #4 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0 0

fedest.com, questions and answers