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CanaanAncient region between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea, called in the Bible the ‘Promised Land’ of the Israelites. It was occupied as early as the 3rd millennium BC by the Canaanites, a Semitic-speaking people who were known to the Greeks of the 1st millennium BC as Phoenicians. The capital was Ebla (now Tell Mardikh, Syria). The Canaanite Empire included Syria, Palestine, and part of Mesopotamia. It was conquered by the Israelites during the 13th to 10th centuries BC. Ebla was excavated 1976-77, revealing an archive of inscribed tablets dating from the 3rd millennium BC, which includes place names such as Gaza and Jerusalem (no excavations at the latter had suggested occupation at so early a date). Canaan
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Servant of the Gods is a historical fiction novel that brings to life the events of the Song of Deborah, the Biblical story of how Deborah and Barak led an army to defeat the Canaanites and lay claim to Israel. States Rabbi Shlomo Aviner of Gush Emunim: "From the point of view of mankind's humanistic morality, we were in the wrong in (taking the land) from the Canaanites. After all, as he reminds us, "Nowhere in Mein Kampfis there anything as explicit as the policy of killing Canaanites in Deuteronomy 7 and 20 and 1 Samuel 15" Islamic texts and traditions are no less bellicose. |
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