Canaan | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-07

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00:02:10 1 Etymology
00:04:49 2 Archaeology
00:04:58 2.1 Origins
00:06:07 2.2 Middle Bronze Age
00:06:16 2.2.1 Ebla tablets (c. 2500–2200 BC)
00:07:11 2.2.2 Mari letters (c. 2000 BC)
00:08:18 2.3 Late Bronze Age cuneiform (1500–1000 BC)
00:08:32 2.3.1 Alalakh texts
00:09:35 2.3.2 Amarna letters
00:13:13 2.3.3 Ugarit texts
00:14:03 2.3.4 Ashur tablets
00:14:22 2.3.5 Hattusa letters
00:15:16 2.4 Late Bronze Age Hieroglyphic and Hieratic (1500–1000 BC)
00:18:42 2.5 Later sources
00:19:25 3 Greco-Roman historiography
00:22:39 4 History
00:22:48 4.1 Overview
00:23:49 4.2 Prehistory
00:24:11 4.3 Early Bronze Age (3500–2000)
00:26:26 4.4 Middle Bronze Age (2000–1550)
00:29:41 4.5 Late Bronze Age (1550–1200)
00:38:55 4.6 Bronze Age collapse
00:41:09 4.7 Iron Age
00:43:38 5 Culture
00:49:54 6 Legacy
00:50:34 7 List of Canaan's rulers
00:50:51 8 In Jewish and Christian Scriptures
00:51:02 8.1 Hebrew Bible
00:59:32 8.2 New Testament
01:00:08 9 Black Africans as descendants of Canaan
01:01:33 10 See also
01:01:54 11 Notes
01:02:02 12 Bibliography
01:05:22 13 External links



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Canaan (; Northwest Semitic: knaʿn; Phoenician: 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 Kenāʿan; Arabic: كنعان‎, translit. Kena‘an; Hebrew: כְּנָעַן Kena‘an) was a Semitic-speaking region in the Ancient Near East during the late 2nd millennium BC. The name Canaan appears throughout the Bible, where it corresponds to the Levant, in particular to the areas of the Southern Levant that provide the main setting of the narrative of the Bible: Phoenicia, Philistia, Israel, and other nations.
The word Canaanites serves as an ethnic catch-all term covering various indigenous populations—both settled and nomadic-pastoral groups—throughout the regions of the southern Levant or Canaan. It is by far the most frequently used ethnic term in the Bible. In the Book of Joshua, Canaanites are included in a list of nations to exterminate, and later described as a group which the Israelites had annihilated. Biblical scholar Mark Smith notes that archaeological data suggests "that the Israelite culture largely overlapped with and derived from Canaanite culture... In short, Israelite culture was largely Canaanite in nature. The name "Canaanites" (כְּנָעַנִיְם kena‘anim, כְּנָעַנִי kena‘anī) is attested, many centuries later, as the endonym of the people later known to the Ancient Greeks from c. 500 BC as Phoenicians, and following the emigration of Canaanite-speakers to Carthage (founded in the 9th century BC), was also used as a self-designation by the Punics (chanani) of North Africa during Late Antiquity.
Canaan had significant geopolitical importance in the Late Bronze Age Amarna period (14th century BC) as the area where the spheres of interest of the Egyptian, Hittite, Mitanni and Assyrian Empires converged. Much of modern knowledge about Canaan stems from archaeological excavation in this area at sites such as Tel Hazor, Tel Megiddo, and Gezer.