Tuesday, July 19, 2011

On The Arab Conquest...of "Palestine"

Did you know that "the Graeco-Roman period" of Eretz-Yisrael begins "with Alexander and ending with the Arab Conquest of Palestine.”

"Conquest". You caught that?

That comes from a book, a nine-volume Corpus to be

organized according to major geographical and/or historical divisions in ancient Judaea/Palestina: Jerusalem and its surroundings; the middle coastline north of Tel Aviv and south of Haifa with Caesarea as the focal point; the southern coastline with its urban hinterland; Galilee and the northern coastline including Acco; the Golan Heights; Samaria; Judaea
(without Jerusalem) and Idumaea; the Negev...[and] Parts of modern Syria and Jordan which were at different times part of the administrative unit which included Iudaea/Palestine ”

The Corpus is divided into

...three chronological groups: (1) The Hellenistic period up to the destruction of the Second Temple in 70; (2) The Roman period from 70 to the reign of Constantine; (3) Late Antiquity, from Constantine to the Arab Conquest.”

Source

3 comments:

Juniper in the Desert said...

I left them a message... ;))

דניאל פידלמן said...

What seems to be the problem, exactly?
EI was conquered by Arabs and was widely known as Syria-Palestina after the failure of Bar-Kohba's revolt, and Iudea before it.

YMedad said...

To ד"פ

the "problem" is that the Arabs claim they've been here since, well, the Jebusites. And "conquer"? Heck, no.

But history says otherwise and I pointed that out.