From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Robert G Lewis"  wrote in message
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> "Phil Payne" 
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>> Following the spectacular "outing" of the fake Jehoash
inscription, there
>> remains not one single piece of tangible archaeolgical evidence that
>> Israel
>> ever existed.
>>
>>
>
> So who did the Romans conquer around 63 BCE ?
>

Judea? Iudaea Province?  Palestine was invented by the Romans though. In
135 C.E. the Roman Procurator in charge of the Judean-Israel territories
was pissed at the Jewish revolt and changed the name to Philistia  to upset
the Jews ( his historians told him the Philistines were the worst enemies
of the Jews in their history ). Philistia eventually bastardized to
Palaistina.

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