Country of Canaan
See also: Canaan
The Country of Canaan (in Hebrew: כנען Kəná `year, Kənā `year - Kená' year, Kná' an'; in Arab " " Bilad Kana' an" " ') is a term used in the biblical account to describe the part of the the Middle East located between the the Mediterranean and the the Jordan (this area corresponds more or less today to the territories of the historical Palestine, of the west of the Jordan, the south of the Syria and the Lebanon), before its conquest by Josué and the Tribus of Israel left Egypt.
Biblical tradition
According to the tradition Judeo-Christian, this territory is thus called name of the character of Canaan, wire of Cham, second wire of Noah, whose descendants are supposed to have populated the Africa. In the book of the Genesis, this ground is indicated by God with Abraham like a promise for its descendants.
The Bible mentions then seven ethnos groups which populate the Country of Canaan and which is known under the generic name of Cananéens: they are the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Cananéens, the Perizzites, the Hivvites and the Jébuséens .
In the Book of Josué, the country of Canaan is the subject of the conquest and the division of the country by the Hebrews. Other people continue however to be mentioned in the biblical text, which justifies their presence on this ground, to test the Children of Israel .
See also: Canaan (Bible)
Archeology
The name of Canaan is extremely old and seems to be appeared with the OJ. One found mentions of his name on shelves found in the ruins of Mari where it appears as a distinct political entity. It was undoubtedly about a ground of a certain ethnic diversity before the arrival of the Hebrew . But in an ethnic context, it seems that Canaanéens, neighbors and close relatives of the Amorites, correspond exactly to the Phéniciens.
The name of its inhabitants, the Cananéens, ( כנעני Kəna `ănî, Kena' ani, Kna' ani or Kana `nim , i.e. Canaanites), derived from a term meaning manufacturing or merchant of Pourpre , which represents another bond with the Phénicie whose towns of Tyr and Sidon were well-known for this product. It is besides trying to bring closer the " term; phénicien" Greek adjective " phoinix" indicating a red color dark, rather brownish. In the Bible, it takes sometimes the simple significance of commercial . But it does not matter which them Cananéens was, they thus had a certain reputation of tradesmen in most of the the Middle East. The history of Canaan is former on arrival of the Peuples of the Sea.
The discoveries archaeological carried out by Israel Finkelstein in the years 1990, would tend to prove that the country of Canaan was not militarily conquered , but that the appearance of the first communities Jews on the interior highlands, towards -1200, make the latter of the groups of stocks themselves cananéennes (probably of the groups dissenting, refractory with the Egyptian domination which prevailed then).
As from the moment when Israel emerged, the Canaan term started to leave room to three new terms according to the areas. The Phénicie indicated the northern littoral, the Philistine indicated the southern littoral and the Royaume of Israel the interior grounds.
Simple: Canaan
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