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Etymology. Canaan. The English term "Canaan" (pronounced / ˈkeɪnən / since c. 1500, due to the Great Vowel Shift) comes from the Hebrew כנען ( Kənaʿan ), via the Koine Greek Χανααν Khanaan and the Latin Canaan.
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The Promised Land (Hebrew: הארץ המובטחת, translit.: ha'aretz...
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Canaanism was a cultural and ideological movement which was...
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The etymology of "Canaan" is unknown. While "Phoenician" and...
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If, in various ways, we recognize in Hebrew elements that differentiate it from the neighboring Canaanite dialects, we do not believe that these are derived from the Aramaic or Amorite that the Israelites might perhaps have spoken before they settled in Canaan, but instead that they result, for example, from linguistic conservativism, from ...
Mar 31, 2016 · Though who is a Canaanite remains ambiguous, most recent scholarship understands Canaanites not as an ethnic designation but employs it to refer to the 2nd millennium BCE inhabitants of diverse identities residing in a region that contemporary Akkadian, Egyptian, and Ugaritic texts and later Phoenician/Punic and Hebrew accounts refer to as ...
A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and remained in regular use as a first language until after 200 CE and as the liturgical language of Judaism (since the Second Temple period) and Samaritanism. [14] .
ARAD (Heb. עֲרָד), an important biblical city in the eastern Negev which controlled the main road to Edom and Elath.. Ancient Arad "The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the South [Negev]" prevented the Israelite tribes from penetrating into Canaan directly from Kadesh-Barnea "by the way of Atharim" (Num. 21:1; 33:40) and he defeated them at neighboring Hormah (Num 14:44–45 ...
Discussing the use of proper names in the Hebrew Bible, Marks asserts that their etymology coheres well with “the whole ethos of biblical iconoclasm: what the name buries or empedestals, the etymology animates or exhumes.”
