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Historian John Morris Roberts
Historian Bernard Lewis...
Number of times "Palestine" and "Palestinians" appear in the Bible [OT & NT]: Zero
Number of times Israel and Israelites appear in the Bible: 2000+
For many people during many centuries, mankind's history before the coming of Christianity was the history of the Jews and what they recounted of the history of others. Both were written down in the books called the Old Testament, the sacred writing of the Jewish people. They were the first to arrive at an abstract notion of God and to forbid his representation by images. No other peope has produced a greater historical impact from such comparatively insignificant origins and resources.
Historian Bernard Lewis...
It is by now commonplace that the civilizations of the Middle East are oldest known to human history. They go back thousands of years, much older than the civilizations of India and China, not to speak of other upstart places. It is also interesting, though now often forgotten, that the ancient civilizations of the Middle East were almost totally obliterated and forgotten by their own people as well as by others. Their monuments were defaced or destroyed, their languages forgotten, their scripts forgotten, their history forgotten and even their identities forgotten. All that was known about them came from one single source, and that is Israel, the only component of the ancient Middle East to have retained their identity, their memory, their language and their books. For a very long time, up to comparatively modern times, with rare exceptions all that was known about the ancient Middle East--the Babylonians, the Egyptians and the rest--was what the Jewish tradiiton has preserved.
Number of times "Palestine" and "Palestinians" appear in the Bible [OT & NT]: Zero
Number of times Israel and Israelites appear in the Bible: 2000+