The history of the State of Palestine describes the creation and evolution of the State of Palestine in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. During the British mandate period, numerous plans of partition of Palestine were proposed but without the agreement of all parties. In 1947, the United Nations ...
Which brings us to the name ‘Palestine’. We know that the Romans renamed Judea as Syria-Palestina circa 135AD. We also know that as the name ‘Palestine’ became ever more politicised in the 21st century, anti-Israel activists pored through every historical document possible to prove the na...
By destroying the association of Jews with Judea and forbidding the practice of the Jewish faith, Hadrian aimed to root out a nation that had inflicted heavy casualties on the Roman Empire. For the next many centuries, the region of Israel was conquered and ruled by many groups such as the...
Palestine after the reign of Herod, with orange areas left to Herod Archelaus, pink areas left to Herod Antipas, and green areas left to Philip Tensions in Judea The Judean region had a significant amount of social, cultural, and religious tensions leading up to and during Herod's reign...
him, he added a part of Samaria to Judea (331 B.C.). After Alexander's untimely death (323 B.C.), Palestine had an ample share of the troubles which arose out of the partition of his vast empire among his captains. Placed between Syria and Egypt, it became the bone of contention ...
To the south and southeast of the city of God was a vast and formidable wilderness. The wilderness of Judea included the wildernesses of Zaphon and Maon, which lay further to the south of Hebron and made famous through the exploits of David and Saul. In the east, the Dead Sea collides ...
Isaiah 2:3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD ...
Season two logo.God of Hosts, Viktor Vasnetsov (1896) The second season consists of 61 episodes. I discussed the Babylonian exile, the return, and the subsequent history of the Jews from the Persian period through the Hasmonean kingdom, to conclude with Judea as a Roman province. I also ...
The tablets give details on Jewish people who lived at a village called Āl-Yahūdu, which in Akkadian means the "village of Judea." The tablets were "written by Babylonian scribes on behalf of the Judean families that lived in and around Āl-Yahūdu," Kathleen Abraham, a professor at...
In the early second century A.D.,invading Romans defeatedthe rebellious Jews and changed the province’s name from Judea to Syria Palaestina. As this name change suggests,Palestine was never a country, but always a province of a distant empire. ...