Thank you for this excellent brief history and summary that most people not knowledgeable about history and who aren't otherwise well read or well travelled are simply not aware of! This is compounded by today's media as mentioned.
“The argument is compelling, and yet, there remains a consensus among many scholars that the Greeks of Herodotus’ time merely transliterated a long-standing name for the coastal region that was largely occupied by the Philistines.”
The question is, where did that consensus come from? In Greek, the region occupied by the Philistines was called Φυλιστια (Phulistia), which bears very little resemblance to Παλαιστινα (Palaistina). Consensus is often wrong.
Excellent essay.
Thx
The history is the history. Unfortunately, too many have swallowed the marketing pitch and reject the facts.
Thank you for this excellent brief history and summary that most people not knowledgeable about history and who aren't otherwise well read or well travelled are simply not aware of! This is compounded by today's media as mentioned.
Free the Winnepeggers from genicidal Canadians!
You wrote, "The term “Palestine” enters recorded history not as the name of a nation, a people, or an ethnicity, but as a deliberate Roman insult."
That's what most people believe, but the name is actually much older than that. It appeared twice in Herodotus' history, six centuries earlier.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/is-palestine-the-ancient-greek-name-for-the-children-of-israel/
“The argument is compelling, and yet, there remains a consensus among many scholars that the Greeks of Herodotus’ time merely transliterated a long-standing name for the coastal region that was largely occupied by the Philistines.”
Interesting article, though.
The question is, where did that consensus come from? In Greek, the region occupied by the Philistines was called Φυλιστια (Phulistia), which bears very little resemblance to Παλαιστινα (Palaistina). Consensus is often wrong.
Exactly. And the Philistines disappeared.