My understanding is that the name "Palestine" did not exist until shortly after Biblical times. If I'm not mistaken, in 70AD there was a Jewish revolt. The Romans sacked Jerusalem, and they renamed the region as Palestine, after the Philistines in the Bible, as an insult to the Jews.
My understanding is that the name "Palestine" did not exist until shortly after Biblical times. If I'm not mistaken, in 70AD there was a Jewish revolt. The Romans sacked Jerusalem, and they renamed the region as Palestine, after the Philistines in the Bible, as an insult to the Jews.