Biblical Hebrew Forum

["stoney" <stoney AT touchwood.net>]

At 11:25 AM 7/18/2002, you wrote:
> I agree with all this below, except
> that scholars who have
> no trouble referring to the area of Iran when they mean Persia, or
>  Iraq when they mean Babylon, somehow balk when they want
> to refer to the area of land covered by the modern State of Israel.
> Scholars who study the Roman period do not refer to Gaul
> when they mean the area of land included in modern
> France. People ought to apply the same logic, and use
> the name of the modern state. It is Israel.

Except the modern state of Israel does not include the core of ancient
Israel and ancient Judah.

Stoney Breyer
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