Reply #16: But Jesus was a Palestinian

[azurnoir]

Judea was a region of Palestine even in Roman times

Herod the Great: 37-4 BC

In Palestine one rich local family increasingly enjoys Roman favour - that of Herod. The family are practising Jews, though not descended from one of the tribes of Israel, and they seem able to deliver the stability which the Roman empire requires in the region.

Herod is in Rome in 40 BC, when the senate appoints him king of Judaea (the Roman name for the area round Jerusalem). He returns to the east with a Roman army, and by 37 BC is firmly in control of his new kingdom. He will rule it till his death in 4 BC, becoming known to history as Herod the Great.

http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab29

I am amazed that you would find so very important to deny this fact and in doing so prove the authors point IMO