在时间的推移中，尤其是从韦斯巴芗（公元69年起在位的皇帝）开始

In the course of time, and especially from Vespasian (Emperor from 69

自公元79年左右起,"Palaestina"一词开始取代罗马时期该省较长的名称"叙利亚—巴勒斯坦"(Syria Palaestina)。在罗马时期,巴勒斯坦的领土范围包括沿海地区、以东这地(Idumaea)、犹大(Judaea)、撒马利亚(Samaria)、佩拉西亚(Perasa,今约旦北部)以及大马士革东南的特拉科尼蒂斯(Trachonitis,今阿拉伯、拉贾特)。承袭希罗多德及古典文学的传统,罗马人对巴勒斯坦的这一理解也取其广义,即指今黎巴嫩与埃及之间的南黎凡特地区。从罗马皇帝哈德良所确立的正式行省名称"叙利亚—巴勒斯坦",逐渐转向更多地强调"巴勒斯坦",这一术语的转变反映在斯特拉博、老普林尼、蓬波尼乌斯·梅拉等重要罗马作家的著作中,也反映在约瑟夫和亚历山大的斐洛等古典犹太作家的作品里。

to 79 AD) onwards, the term Palaestina began to supersede the longer Roman name of the province of ‘Syria Palaestina’. The territorial boundaries of Palaestina in the time of the Romans embraced the coastal region of Palestine, Idumaea, Judaea, Samaria, Perasa (northern modern Jordan) and Trachonitis (modern Arab, Lajat), south-east of Damascus. Following Herodotus and classical literature, this Roman conception of Palestine applied to the country in the wider sense: to the area of the southern Levant between modern Lebanon and Egypt. The shift in the terminology from the official Roman province of ‘Syria Palaestina’ introduced by Emperor Hadrian to more and more emphasis on Palestine is reflected in the works of important Roman writers such as Strabo, Pliny the Elder and Pomponius Mela and classical Jewish authors including Josephus and Philo of Alexandria.