(1692 map by ‘philip lea’)
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-as of [21 MARCH 2024]–
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/หkeษชnษn/
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‘northwest semitic’ –>
knaสฟn;
(2 As, ey?)
“cummon now!”
(“i mean…really?…)
(“MEDIUM RARE”)
“you’re better than that!”
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*phoenician* –> ๐ค๐ค๐ค๐ค;
*biblical hebrew* –>: ืื ืขื / knaสฟn;
masoretic: ืึฐึผื ึธืขึทื /Kษnฤโan)
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-[canaan] was a ‘semitic-speaking region’ in the ‘ancient near east’ during the late ‘2nd millennium BC’-
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(in the ‘bible’, it corresponds to the ‘levant’, in particular the areas of the ‘southern levant’ that are the main setting of the narrative of the ‘hebrew bible’, i.e., the area of ‘israel’, ‘philistia’, ‘phoenicia’, and other ‘nations’)
(the name ‘canaan’ (kษnฤโan ืึฐึผื ึธืขึทื) is used commonly in the ‘hebrew bible’, with particular definition in references ‘genesis 10’ and ‘numbers 34’, where the “land of canaan” extends from ‘lebanon’ southward to the “brook of egypt” and eastward to the ‘jordan river valley’)
(references to ‘canaan’ in the ‘bible’ are usually ‘backward-looking’, referring to a region that had become something else (i.e., the ‘land of israel’))
(the term canaanites is an ethnic ‘catch-all term’ covering the varied ‘indigenous populations’ of 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 which they are commonly described as a ‘people’ which, in the ‘book of joshua’ are marked down on a list as one of the ‘nations’ to be ‘exterminated’, and later as a ‘group’ which had been ‘annihilated’ by the ‘israelites’)
(archaeological attestation of the name canaan in ‘ancient near eastern’ sources is almost exclusively during the period in which the region was a colony of the ‘new kingdom of egypt’ (16th โ 11th century BC), with usage of the name almost disappearing following the ‘late bronze age’ collapse (ca. 1206โ1150 BC))
(the references suggest that during this period the term was familiar to the region’s neighbors on all sides, although it has been disputed to what extent such references provide a coherent description of its ‘location’ and ‘boundaries’, and regarding whether the inhabitants used the term to describe themselves)
(the ‘amarna letters’ and other ‘cuneiform’ documents use kinaแธซแธซu, while other sources of the ‘egyptian new kingdom’ mention numerous military campaigns conducted in ‘ka-na-na‘)
(can these ancient egyptians be ‘played by’ 2nd millenium ‘african-americans’?)
“blame canada!”
(the new “land of canaan”)
(the name “canaanites” (kana`nฤซm, chanani) 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’, was also used as a self-designation by the ‘punics’ (chanani) during ‘late antiquity’)
(this mirrors later usage in later ‘books’ of the ‘hebrew bible’, such as at the end of the ‘book of zechariah’, where it is thought to refer to a class of ‘merchants’ or to non-monotheistic worshippers in ‘israel’ or neighboring ‘sidon’ and ‘tyre’, as well as in its single independent usage in the ‘new testament’, where it is alternated for “syrophoenician” in 2 parallel passages)
(‘canaan’ was also of significant geopolitical importance in the ‘late bronze age’ amarna period as the area where the spheres of interest of the ‘egyptian’, ‘hittite’, ‘mitanni’, and ‘assyrian’ empires converged)
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(much of the modern knowledge about ‘canaan’ stems from ‘archaeological excavation’ in this ‘area’ at ‘sites’ such as ‘tel hazor’, ‘tel megiddo’, and ‘gezer’)
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