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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

ancient Palestine

Hebrew translation:

ארץ ישראל הקדומה

Added to glossary by aqanai
May 30, 2005 14:45
18 yrs ago
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English term

ancient Palestine

English to Hebrew Other History Ancient History/Geography
In the following context:
"This literary technique [the use of quotations] has persisted from the dawn of civilization in Egypt and Mesopotamia through ancient Palestine down to modern America."
My question is, is it Paleshet? פלשת
Proposed translations (Hebrew)
5 +5 ארץ ישראל הקדומה
4 Palestine means the whole Eretz Yisroel

Proposed translations

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ארץ ישראל הקדומה

No. Palestine means ארץ ישראל - כנען (the land of Israel - Canaan).
פלשת (Peleshet)is Philistia in English, not Palestine.

לא. מובמו הוא ארץ ישראל - כנען.
פלשת באנגלית = PHILSTIA
PALESTINE ולא
Peer comment(s):
agree mirmir : כנען
2 mins
agree eileengreen : Palestine was the Roman name for the country.
5 mins
Actually, the Roman name was Iudaea. Only after Bar Kokhba did they change it to Palestina.
agree Suzan Chin
20 mins
neutral Zvi Karni : In this particular context, the author should have used the word Cnaan/Israel, and not Palestine. The latter name came into general usage by the Romans, at approx. 131 AD.
1 hr
That is exactly what I said.
agree Leah Aharoni
2 hrs
agree Hezy Mor
5 hrs
neutral Eynat : We cannot tell what the writer meant, as the term is often used anachronistically.It would be nice if you could read what you write, never mind others, because that's not 'exactly what you wrote' at all: different historians use it differently.
20 hrs
The term “ancient Palestine” is used by historians to refer to the land of Israel/Canaan in Biblical times and earlier. The use of “Palestine” is ana anachronism, but it does not equal Peleshet, which is Philistia. Which is exactly what I wrote.
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1134 days

Palestine means the whole Eretz Yisroel

To use the term differently would be a mistake. Palestine is not Peleshet.
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