and Palestine: Why Did Rome Use The Name Palestine to Rename Eretz
Israel?
Again, the name Palestine itself
is derived from "Plesheth", a name that appears frequently
in the Bible and has come into our modern English as "Philistine".
The Philistines were not Arabs, nor even Semites, but were most
closely related to the Greeks originating from Asia Minor and other
Greek localities. The Philistines reached the southern coast of
Israel in several waves. One group arrived in the pre-patriarchal
period and settled south of Beersheba in Gerar where they came into
conflict with Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael. Another group, coming from
Crete after being repulsed from an attempted invasion of Egypt by
Rameses III in 1194 BC, seized the southern coastal area, where they
founded five settlements (Gaza, Ascalon, Ashdod, Ekron and Gat). In
the Persian and Greek periods, foreign settlers, chiefly from the
Mediterranean islands, overran the Philistine districts.
After the
Roman conquest of Judea, "Palastina" became a province of
the pagan Roman Empire and then of the Christian Byzantine Empire,
and very briefly of the Zoroastrian Persian Empire.
is derived from "Plesheth", a name that appears frequently
in the Bible and has come into our modern English as "Philistine".
The Philistines were not Arabs, nor even Semites, but were most
closely related to the Greeks originating from Asia Minor and other
Greek localities. The Philistines reached the southern coast of
Israel in several waves. One group arrived in the pre-patriarchal
period and settled south of Beersheba in Gerar where they came into
conflict with Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael. Another group, coming from
Crete after being repulsed from an attempted invasion of Egypt by
Rameses III in 1194 BC, seized the southern coastal area, where they
founded five settlements (Gaza, Ascalon, Ashdod, Ekron and Gat). In
the Persian and Greek periods, foreign settlers, chiefly from the
Mediterranean islands, overran the Philistine districts.
After the
Roman conquest of Judea, "Palastina" became a province of
the pagan Roman Empire and then of the Christian Byzantine Empire,
and very briefly of the Zoroastrian Persian Empire.
From the fifth century BC,
following the historian Herodotus, Greeks called the eastern coast of
the Mediterranean "Philistine Syria" using the Greek
language form of the name. In AD135, after putting down the Bar
Kochba revolt, the second major Jewish revolt against Rome, Emperor
Hadrian wanted to blot out the name of the Roman "Provincia
Judaea" and so he renamed it "Provincia Syria Palaestina",
the Latin version of the Greek name and the first use of the name as
an administrative unit. The name "Provincia Syria Palaestina"
was later shortened to Palaestina, from which the modern, anglicized
"Palestine" is derived.
following the historian Herodotus, Greeks called the eastern coast of
the Mediterranean "Philistine Syria" using the Greek
language form of the name. In AD135, after putting down the Bar
Kochba revolt, the second major Jewish revolt against Rome, Emperor
Hadrian wanted to blot out the name of the Roman "Provincia
Judaea" and so he renamed it "Provincia Syria Palaestina",
the Latin version of the Greek name and the first use of the name as
an administrative unit. The name "Provincia Syria Palaestina"
was later shortened to Palaestina, from which the modern, anglicized
"Palestine" is derived.
In 638AD, an Arab-Muslim Caliph
took Palastina away from the Byzantine Empire and made it part of an
Arab-Muslim Empire. The Arabs, who had no name of their own for this
region, adopted the Greco-Roman name Palastina, that they pronounced
"Falastin". In that period, much of the mixed population of
Palastina converted to Islam and adopted the Arabic language. They
were subjects of a distant Caliph who ruled them from his capital,
that was first in Damascus and later in Baghdad. They did not become
a nation or an independent state, or develop a distinct society or
culture.
took Palastina away from the Byzantine Empire and made it part of an
Arab-Muslim Empire. The Arabs, who had no name of their own for this
region, adopted the Greco-Roman name Palastina, that they pronounced
"Falastin". In that period, much of the mixed population of
Palastina converted to Islam and adopted the Arabic language. They
were subjects of a distant Caliph who ruled them from his capital,
that was first in Damascus and later in Baghdad. They did not become
a nation or an independent state, or develop a distinct society or
culture.
Rome’s dispersion of the Jews
from Eretz Israel was an instrument of the Satanic cosmic conspiracy
to dissect Israel from the providence and omniscience of God to
fulfill his covenant with Jacob.
Thus Rome’s renaming of Eretz
Israel was the Roman Emperor’s method of eradicating the memory of
Israel from anything to do with the Biblically Promised Land, and to
show the world that Rome had forever annulled the covenant of
Abraham. This same concept is still alive today in religious Rome,
and throughout the religious world in the guise of Replacement
Theology.
from Eretz Israel was an instrument of the Satanic cosmic conspiracy
to dissect Israel from the providence and omniscience of God to
fulfill his covenant with Jacob.
Thus Rome’s renaming of Eretz
Israel was the Roman Emperor’s method of eradicating the memory of
Israel from anything to do with the Biblically Promised Land, and to
show the world that Rome had forever annulled the covenant of
Abraham. This same concept is still alive today in religious Rome,
and throughout the religious world in the guise of Replacement
Theology.
The eradication of Israel in
geography and the insertion of Palestine to the label for the land
remained the situation until the end of the fourth century, when in
the wake of a general imperial reorganization Palestine became three
Palestines: First, Second, and Third. This configuration is believed
to have persisted into the seventh century, to the time of the
Persian and the Muslim conquests of the land.
Later, the Roman
Papal Crusaders employed the word Palestine to refer to the whole
general region of the "three Palestines." After the fall of
the crusader kingdom, Palestine was no longer an official
designation, but was continued to be used informally for the lands on
both sides of the Jordan River.
geography and the insertion of Palestine to the label for the land
remained the situation until the end of the fourth century, when in
the wake of a general imperial reorganization Palestine became three
Palestines: First, Second, and Third. This configuration is believed
to have persisted into the seventh century, to the time of the
Persian and the Muslim conquests of the land.
Later, the Roman
Papal Crusaders employed the word Palestine to refer to the whole
general region of the "three Palestines." After the fall of
the crusader kingdom, Palestine was no longer an official
designation, but was continued to be used informally for the lands on
both sides of the Jordan River.
The Ottoman Turks, who were
non-Arabs but religious Muslims, ruled the area for 400 years
(1517-1917). Under Ottoman rule, the Palestine region was attached
administratively to the province of Damascus and ruled from Istanbul.
The name Palestine was revived after the fall of the Ottoman Empire
in World War I and applied to the territory in this region that was
placed under the British Mandate for Palestine. The name "Falastin"
that Arabs today use for "Palestine" is not an Arabic name.
It is the Arab pronunciation of the Roman "Palaestina."
non-Arabs but religious Muslims, ruled the area for 400 years
(1517-1917). Under Ottoman rule, the Palestine region was attached
administratively to the province of Damascus and ruled from Istanbul.
The name Palestine was revived after the fall of the Ottoman Empire
in World War I and applied to the territory in this region that was
placed under the British Mandate for Palestine. The name "Falastin"
that Arabs today use for "Palestine" is not an Arabic name.
It is the Arab pronunciation of the Roman "Palaestina."
Thus, this is the fundamental
reason that talking and writing about Israel and the Middle East
Conflict today features the nouns "Palestine" and
Palestinian", and the phrases "Palestinian territory"
and even "Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory". All too
often, these terms are used with regard to their historical or
geographical meaning, so that the usage creates illusions rather than
clarifying Biblical truth about the Promised Land.
reason that talking and writing about Israel and the Middle East
Conflict today features the nouns "Palestine" and
Palestinian", and the phrases "Palestinian territory"
and even "Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory". All too
often, these terms are used with regard to their historical or
geographical meaning, so that the usage creates illusions rather than
clarifying Biblical truth about the Promised Land.
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