The first known reference we have to Palestine as “a district of Syria, called ‘Palaistin,’” comes from the mid-5th-century. The earliest record of the Israelis is from 1200 BCE.

Ancient Palestine was occupied by several different nations throughout its history. What do we know about them?

"The first ever mention of an ancient land ... right up until the 20th century." Thus, Palestine is mentioned in many – perhaps hundreds of thousands of – historical documents spanning the ...

They still today present us with the challenge with which Jesus encountered his hearers in first-century Palestine. These little stories (together with the Lord's Prayer and the Beatitudes ...

The Empire had already given up control of many of its territorial possessions, losing almost half of its land from the middle of the nineteenth century to the eve of the first world war.

The leaders of the first wave of Jewish immigration to Palestine at the end of the 19th century were already in no doubt about the inevitability of conflict with the land's Arab population.