BOOK FROM 1695 FOUND IN ITS 1714 PRINTING BRINGS PROOF THAT PALESTINE WAS NEVER ARAB….

Adriaan Reelant the author (also known as Adriaen Reeland/Reelant, Hadrianus Relandus) (17 July 1676 – 5 February 1718) was a noted Dutch Orientalist scholar, cartographer and philologist. He made significant contributions to Middle Eastern and Asian linguistics and cartography, including Persia, Japan and the Holy Lands is said to have spoken Hebrew, Arabic and Ancient Greek perfectly and European languages.

The book was written in Latin in 1695 it was sent to Israel; At that time known as Palestine. Some claim that he traveled, for his research that included about 2,500 places where people who were mentioned in the Bible or Michna lived. Other sources say he never left Holland.
In his work Reelant;

1) Created the first map the Land of Israel;

2)Identified each of the places mentioned in the Michna or Talmud with its original source. If the source was Jewish, he listed it in the Holy Scriptures. If the source was Roman or Greek, it indicated the connection in Greek or Latin;

3) Conducted a demographic survey and a census of each community (how this was done is not explained).

Reelant’s Conclusions;

1. No settlement in the Land of Israel has a name of Arab origin.

Most colonial names come from Hebrew, Greek, Latin or Roman languages.. In fact, until today except for Ramlah, no Arab settlement has an original Arabic namer, most settlement names are of Hebrew or Greek origin, names sometimes distorted into Arabic name meaningless.

There is no Arabic meaning in names like Acco (Acre), Haifa, Jaffa, Naplusa, Gaza or Jenin and the cities called Ramallah, El Halil and El-Kuds (Jerusalem) lack Arabic historical roots or philology. In 1696, the year Relaand returned the country, Ramallah, for example, was called Bet’allah (Hebrew name Beit El) and Hebron was called Hebron (Hevron) and the Arabs called Mearat HaMachpelah El Chalil, his name for the ancestor Abraham.

2. Most of the lands were empty, desolate and few inhabited and concentrated mostly in the cities of Jerusalem, Acco, Tzfat, Jaffa, Tiberius and Gaza. Most of the population were Jews and some were Christians. Few Muslims, mostly Bedouin nomads. Naplusa, known as Shchem, was the exception, as there lived about 120 people, members of the Muslim Natsha family, and about 70 Shomronites. A. In the capital of Galilee, Nazareth, lived about 700 Christians and in Jerusalem about 5000 people, mostly Jews and some Christians.
   Interesting thing is that Reland mentioned Muslims as Bedouin nomads who came to the area as reinforcement of the building and farming manpower. In other words seasonal workers. B .For example, in Gaza there were about 500 people, 55% of Jews and the rest mainly Christians. Jews grew up and worked in their flowering vineyards, olive orchards and wheat fields. Christians worked in the trade and transportation of goods and goods. C. Tiberius and Tzfat were mostly Jews and with the exception of mention of fishermen who fished on Lake Kinneret – the Lake of Galilee – a traditional occupation of Tiberius. There is no mention of their occupations. A city like Um el-Phahem was a village where ten families lived, around people, all of them Christians. There was also a small Maroonite church in the village (Shehadah family).
3. No Palestinian heritage or Palestinian nation.

The book completely contradicts any postmodern theory that claims a “Palestinian legacy” or a Palestinian nation. The book confirms the bond, relevance, kinship of the Land of Israel with Jews, and complete lack of belonging TO ARABS, WHO STOLE THE PALESTINIAN LATIN NAME AND TOOK IT FOR THEMSELVES.

Conclusion. — This extensive study concludes that Israel is at its absolute right to defend, claim and protect what has always been theirs for more than 3,500 years ago. When before Abraham got promise of the promised land to ISRAEL NOT PALESTINE.

4. ‘As for me, this is my Covenant with you:………It is the land of a promise that was made to Abran by changing his name to Abraham and is registered in Genesis 17:4,5
5. Your name will no longer be Avram [exalted father], but your name will be Abraham [father of many], for I have made you father of many nations.
   The same promise was repeated to his son Isaac, the same promise was repeated to Jacob the youngest son of Isaac the father of the 12 tribes of Israel.

In older documents there is NO MENTION OF PALESTINIANS OR ARABS.

Mention in older documents is the Israeli children descendants of Avram whose name was changed to Abraham.

Reland was the son of Johannes Reland, a Protestant minister, and Aagje Prins in the small North Holland village of De Rijp. Adriaan’s brother, Peter (1678–1714), was an influential lawyer in Haarlem.[1] Reland first studied Latin language in Amsterdam at age 11, and enrolled at University of Utrecht in 1693, at age 17, to study theology and philosophy. Initially interested in Hebrew and Syriac, he later began studying Arabic. In 1699, after obtaining his doctorate in Utrecht, Reland moved to Leiden and tutored the son of Hans Willem Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland.[4] The latter invited him to move to England, but Reland declined because of his father’s deteriorating health.
Academic career

In 1699, Reland was appointed Professor of Physics and Metaphysics at the University of Harderwijk. By this point, he had achieved a good knowledge of Arabic, Hebrew, and other Semitic languages.

In 1701, at age 25, he was appointed Professor of Oriental Languages at the University of Utrecht. Beginning in 1713, he also taught Hebrew Antiquities. This was extended with a chair in Jewish Antiquity.

Reland gained renown for his research in Islamic studies and linguistics; his work being an early example of comparative linguistics.

Additionally, he studied Persian and was interested in the relation of Eastern myths to the Old Testament. He published a work concerning East Asian myths, Dissertationum miscellanearum partes tres, in 1708.

Moreover, he discovered the link for the Malay language to the Western Pacific dictionaries of Willem Schouten and Jacob Le Maire.

Research on Middle East

Manuscript of Reland’s work on the foundations of the Persian language (Prima elementa linguae persicae nitidissime conscriptae Adriani Relandi). Printed in Utrecht, dated 1705.

Reland, through compiling Arabic texts, completed De religione Mohammedica libri duo in 1705. This work, extended in 1717, was considered the first objective survey of Islamic beliefs and practices. It quickly became a reference work throughout Europe and was translated into Dutch, English, German, French and Spanish.

Note. – Adrian Reland (1676-1718), Dutch orientalist, was born in Ryp, studied in Utrecht and Leiden and was a teacher of oriental languages successively in Harderwijk (1699) and Utrecht (1701). His most important works are Palestine ex monumentis veteribus illustrata (Utrecht, 1714) and Antigüitates sacrae vetum Hebraeorum.