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Herodotus' reference to Palestine

Herodotus' use of the term Palaistinê to describe a territory between Phoenicia and Egypt, and its implications for the history of the region

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Which passages in Herodotus mention coastal regions like Gaza, Ashkelon or Tyre, and what do they say?

Herodotus names and describes several coastal places now identified as Gaza, Ashkelon and Tyre (often under Greek forms like Cadytis or Jenysus), situating them in a coastal district he calls “Palesti...

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How did Herodotus refer to the peoples and place names of the Levant?

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...