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Period of ancient Rome following the Republic
The name “Palestine” has ancient literary roots — Herodotus used Palaistine in the 5th century BCE to describe a district of Syria (earliest incontrovertible attestation) . The term functioned for mil...
Scholarship assembled in the provided reporting shows little evidence of sustained, large-scale in before the late 19th century; instead the record presented emphasizes long periods of coexistence und...
Palestinian genetic diversity today reflects long-standing local continuity in the Southern Levant combined with layered inputs from migrations, conquests, and episodic gene flow rather than wholesale...
Claims to outlaw “pagan holidays” have historically come from state-backed Christianizing drives (e.g., Theodosius I’s late‑4th‑century decrees that abolished remaining pagan holidays in the Roman Emp...
The Germanic tribal confederations of central and eastern failed to resist the because a fast-moving, cavalry-centric military power exploited long-standing political fragmentation, demographic and en...
into the Roman heartland was not a single, romantic alpine climb but a cascade of migrations and military movements driven by external pressure, opportunism and Roman weakness; groups reached and by u...
Yes: was within the orbit of Roman rule during the generation when is traditionally placed, governed under Roman authority via client kings such as and exposed to imperial administration like censuses...
uses the Greek term (Παλαιστίνη) to designate a district of —the coastal and adjacent parts of the between and —applying it more broadly than the biblical coastal Philistia . He distinguishes subgroup...
The Nazareth Inscription is a Roman-period marble slab bearing a Greek imperial rescript that warns capital punishment for anyone who disturbs tombs or moves sepulchral stones; it entered scholarship ...
New Testament passages connect the Jerusalem Temple to both near-term judgment (Jesus predicts its destruction in Matthew 24:1–2) and to later eschatological crisis (Paul’s “man of lawlessness” will “...
The First Council of Nicaea did not formally fix the biblical canon, so it ; that claim is a persistent myth rooted in later medieval and Enlightenment retellings. Nicaea’s clear, documented legacies ...