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To: Elroy who wrote (191164)	7/7/2006 4:41:20 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Thanks for the lesson. My source was that I happened to watch Ben Hur a few weeks ago, and it has Palestine on the map in one scene! Seriously.... The name is anachronistic, but not the political boundaries. Judea was a Roman province during the 1st century ce. The Romans changed its name to Syria Palestina after the 2nd Jewish rebellion of 130 ce (Palestina = Philistine). In the course of putting down that rebellion they killed a large percentage of the population, and enslaved and deported most of the survivors. The name change was intended to be part of the object lesson of what happens to rebellious people.