English summary: This book explores the shifting definitions, boundaries, and the ensuing cultural differences of the region known as Coele-Syria between the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE. French description: La Coele-Syrie a eu une definition mouvante, coincidant ou s'opposant a la Palestine / Philistie, Phenicie / Canaan, Syrie / Assyrie, Transeuphratene et Peree du Jourdain. L'epithete koile, creuse, s'explique par la maniere...