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Palestine/Israel
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History 1. Palestine/Israel is the designation for that part of the Near East that today makes up the territory of the state of Israel and the Palestinian Autonomous Region. Beginning in the fourteenth century BCE, Israelite nomads wandered into the region. According to biblical narrative—which is not attested by archeological evidence—the ‘twelve tribes of Israel’ were bound together in a sacred alliance that reverenced the god YHWH. Simultaneously, the seafaring people of the ‘Philistines’ sett…
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The Brill Dictionary of Religion
