The capture of central Palestine itself is not recorded; according to its own traditions the district had been seized by Jacob (Gen.

For a time the fate of Syria and Palestine seems to have been no longer controlled by the great powers.

GIBEON, a town in Palestine whose inhabitants wrested a truce from Joshua by a trick (Josh.

For the other books, the recognized Targum on the Prophets is that ascribed to Jonathan ben Uzziel (4th century ?), which originated in Palestine, but was edited in Babylonia, so that it has the same history and linguistic character as Onkelos.

Shortly after the battle of Hittin there appeared in Palestine the ablest and most famous of the family, Count William's second son, Conrad.