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2 days ago · Whilst the inhabitants of Canaan are called Canaanites, they are also called Amorites, similar to the citizens of the multi-ethnic Soviet Union being called Russian, and Hethites/Hittites. Abraham, the ancestor of the Israelites, was most likely an Amorite-Aramean, according to some early theories. Conquest of Canaan
May 6, 2024 · Key among these deities was El, the supreme god of the Canaanite religion. Ronald Hendel notes the overwhelming existence of evidence suggesting that El was the chief deity for various local Canaanite pantheons including those of Israel. After all, as he observes, the name “Israel” itself originally meant something like “El rules”.
May 9, 2024 · Moloch, a Canaanite deity associated in biblical sources with the practice of child sacrifice. The name derives from combining the consonants of the Hebrew melech (’king’) with the vowels of boshet (’shame’), the latter often being used in the Old Testament as a variant name for the popular god Baal (’Lord’).
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May 22, 2024 · Asherah, ancient West Semitic goddess, consort of the supreme god. Her principal epithet was probably “She Who Walks on the Sea.” She was occasionally called Elath (Elat), “the Goddess,” and may have also been called Qudshu, “Holiness.”
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May 16, 2024 · It was called “the head of all those [Canaanite] kingdoms” in Joshua 11:10. Several temples have been uncovered in Hazor. Between the 17th and 13th centuries b.c.e. , four temples were constructed in one location—the fourth being the largest.
May 8, 2024 · People who took part in the Canaanite religion were around when some of the practitioners became monolatrists and then monotheists with Yahweh alone, which later spread more with worshipers converting others to worship the same. But some people in the area would have already been aware of Yahweh.
May 21, 2024 · The Netherlands were home to people called Caninefates, or Cananefates and Chamavii. These Cananefates were probably named for Canaanfa (der)ates, or Cananva (der)ates, literally “fathers of Canaan”, Canaan vaderates.
