On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Eric Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > Palestine is a variant of Philistine...it's the ancient Greek name for > Philistines:
But I already told you it's a Hebrew word for invaders. If you look to see where the Greeks got the word from you'd know that. > In the 5th century BCE, Herodotus wrote in Ancient Greek of a 'district of > Syria, called Palaistinê" (whence Palaestina, whence > Palestine).[7][13][14][15] A district of Syria? Named after ancient invaders? What's your point? > The use of the name "Palestine" in English became more common after the > European renaissance.[21] The name was officially revived and used after > the fall of the Ottoman Empire (15171917) and applied to the territory in > this region that was placed under the British Mandate for Palestine. > > So as you can see, even in English, the use of the name is from the early > 1600's (post 1630 if you want to get technical as that is when most > Historians consider the start of the Renaissance period to be). As already pointed out the Romans called it Palaestina to mock the Jews but very few people used the name...wait for it: Until the British in eary 1900's > IF a place is called Palestine, then the people would be called Palestinians > (even the Jews called them Philistines)...that's pretty simple logic. You're not making s ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:313998 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
