Hi, despite being in anti a while, I'm new to writing in this room, following the thread, getting the flavour of the place, is it a good room for open debate?
So far, I see that Israel is a nation so named after its patriarch
As far as I can enlighten you, I believe samuel and judges was written first, around 960BC, whereas genesis was written eventually in Babylon around 600BC
The Roman emperor so named it in 125AD
In response to the Jewishrebellions first in ad70 then in ad125
I might be mixed in the facts but I learnt that Palestine was the Latinisation of the name of the philistines meant as an insult to the Jews because they were considered unclean at the time