How can palastine be the ancient homeland of the Israelites, according to the Bible they were nomadic?
I starred this question so perhaps some of my Jewish contacts could see it and give a better answer than I could give. The ancient Israelites were not really nomadic but what we would call “pastoral” meaning within a very prescribed area they would move their tents, flocks and herds around. The area they traveled in would have been land their tribes claimed. They went to Egypt fleeing a famine: this was not an act of nomadic behavior, but more the behavior of refugee people. And by the time they left to sojourn in Egypt, God’s covenant with Abraham to give his family the land now known as Israel was already in place for a long time. If you read the Old Testament (the Jewish Tanakh) a large percentage of it deals with God’s covenant with the Israelites and his promise that the land now called Israel was to belong ot the Israelites. You can’t really say “according to the Bible” without understanding this. FYI, the majority of the land of Palestine today doesn’t belong to the Jews: it’s n
