Original sentence: According to the Book of Judges, some Canaanites were not driven out when the tribe settled in their portion of Canaan, and so the Canaanites not driven out actually represent those elements which continued in full the traditional religious practices
Edited sentence: According to the Book of Judges, some Canaanites were not driven out when the tribe settled in their portion of Canaan; according to an increasing majority of archaeologists, the Israelites simply arose as a subculture within Canaanite society, rather than by invading, and so the Canaanites not driven out actually represent those elements which continued in full the traditional religious practices