tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7014209.post4045713165194115368..comments2024-03-27T09:24:50.103+02:00Comments on My Right Word: Palestine? Or, Judea and Samaria?YMedadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14333122797414935958noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7014209.post-19122758647821889692013-12-11T09:44:52.091+02:002013-12-11T09:44:52.091+02:00That's okay to be contrarian.
The map is in a...That's okay to be contrarian.<br /><br />The map is in a book on a visit to Palestine. It is the only map. It is the map of how the world knew Palestine - the Jewish country occupied and ruled by the Ottoman Empire. It never occured to them that it was, in a local national sense, an Arab country, other than being peopled by Arabs - who also peopled Spain until the 15th century or so. Even the local Arabs had no intrinsic cultural Arab-language name for the country. El-Shams meant basically what we know as Greater Syria.<br /><br />Yes, the Land of Israel, named by the Roams "Palestina" was a Bible country.YMedadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14333122797414935958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7014209.post-13424160838133179762013-12-11T00:34:12.844+02:002013-12-11T00:34:12.844+02:00Sorry to be a contrarian here, but that's a 19...Sorry to be a contrarian here, but that's a 19th-century Bible map, yes? You can find similar maps today in Christian Bibles.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com