Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History , by Nur Masalha. London: Zed Books, 2018. 458 pages. $25.00 cloth, $25.00 e-book. Nur Masalha's latest study of Palestine and its history is unique both in terms of its historical scope and the range of subjects it covers, from the Bronze Age to the present. His discussion traces the movement from linguistic to regional to national identities. Masalha identifies the root of the word “Palestine” in “Peleset,” the name of the language of the Philistines in the thirteenth century b.c.e.; and, in various forms, the word Palestine was applied to an area stretching at times from today's south Lebanon to Gaza from 450 c.e. to 1948. This claim forms the basis for his idea of a continuous four-thousand-year history of Palestine. This argument may invoke controversy, set against the more commonly held scholarly view that the word “Palestine” only begins to be seen in the work of Herodotus.* Nonetheless, Masalha views the roots of various forms of the word “Philistia,” linked to the area we know as Palestine, as the basis for the term later applied. The book's epic scope …

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评论：巴勒斯坦：四千年的历史，作者 Nur Masalha

巴勒斯坦：四千年的历史，Nur Masalha 着。伦敦：Zed Books，2018 年。458 页。布 25.00 美元，电子书 25.00 美元。Nur Masalha 对巴勒斯坦及其历史的最新研究在其历史范围和涵盖的主题范围方面都是独一无二的，从青铜时代到现在。他的讨论追溯了从语言到地区再到民族认同的转变。Masalha 确定了“Peleset”中“巴勒斯坦”一词的词根，这是公元前 13 世纪非利士人的语言名称；并且，从公元 450 年到 1948 年，巴勒斯坦这个词以各种形式被应用于从今天的黎巴嫩南部一直延伸到加沙的地区。这一主张构成了他关于巴勒斯坦连续四千年历史的想法的基础。这个论点可能会引起争议，与更普遍的学术观点相反，即“巴勒斯坦”一词仅在希罗多德的作品中才开始出现。* 尽管如此，Masalha 认为“非利士”一词的各种形式的根源与我们所知的巴勒斯坦地区有关，作为后来应用的术语的基础。这本书的史诗范围……