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Against Apion
Flavius Josephus, c. 96 CE, Josephus, Against Apion, book 1, 168-171
Primary bookAgainst Apion, Flavius Josephus, c. 96 CE
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Palestine was the region's Greek name 600 years before Hadrian, and Jewish writers used it
“On top of the fact that the whole region was called Palestine so that might have been confusing, the name comes from the ancient enemies of the Jews, the Philistines. Rome renamed Judea Syria Palaestina when they conquered and destroyed the Jewish homeland, to negate the land's Jewish identity. So that is not really a suitable name for a Jewish state.”