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Ancient people known for their conflict with the Israelites described in the Bible
Herodotus used a Greek form Palaistínē (Παλαιστίνη) to describe a district of Syria between Phoenicia and Egypt; classical reference works and regional histories identify his usage as the earliest cle...
The question "are Israeli people indigenous to Israel?" lacks a simple yes/no answer: modern Israelis include groups with varied historical ties to the land, and genetic, historical, and political evi...
Ancient Egyptian inscriptions record a people or group written as P-r-s-t (commonly vocalized Peleset) in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age, and Assyrian cuneiform records later use forms like Pa...
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 Roman emperor Hadrian or Roman authorities after the Bar Kokhba revolt reorganized the province of Judaea and used forms of the name Palaestina in the 2nd century CE, a change that has been read b...