Canaanites

Author : Mary Ellen Buck
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498243247

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The Canaanites by Mary Ellen Buck Pdf

The term Canaanite will be familiar to anyone who has even the most casual familiarity with the Bible. Outside of the terminology for Israel itself, the Canaanites are the most common ethnic group found in the Bible. They are positioned as the foil of the nation of Israel, and the land of Canaan is depicted as the promised allotment of Abraham and his descendants. The terms Canaan and Canaanites are even evoked in modern political discourse, indicating that their importance extends into the present. With such prominent positioning, it is important to gain a more complete and historically accurate perspective of the Canaanites, their land, history, and rich cultural heritage. So, who were the Canaanites? Where did they live, what did they believe, what do we know about their culture and history, and why do they feature so prominently in the biblical narratives? In this volume, Mary Buck uses original textual and archaeological evidence to answer to these questions. The book follows the history of the Canaanites from their humble origins in the third millennium BCE to the rise of their massive fortified city-states of the Bronze Age, through until their disappearance from the pages of history in the Roman period, only to find their legacy in the politics of the modern Middle East.

Author : Jonathan N. Tubb
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 080613108X

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Canaanites by Jonathan N. Tubb Pdf

Canaanites explores the ancient population of the Western Levant (Israel, Transjordan, Lebanon, and coastal Syria), examining the development of its distinctive culture from the early farming communities of the eighth millennium B.C. to the fragmentation of its social and cultural ideals in the latter half of the first millennium B.C. Jonathan N. Tubb makes judicious use of the Hebrew Bible in describing Canaanite culture. He views the Bible as a rich resource for understanding the literary and theological heritage of Israel, which he classifies as a subculture of Canaan. At the same time he reveals the limitations of the Bible as a historical document, arguing that to reconstruct the Canaanites' history we must first look at the archaeological data. Tubb stresses the continuity of Canaanite civilization, portraying events such as the imposition of Egyptian imperial rule and the development of historical Israel as episodic interruptions.

Author : William Lane Craig
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433501159

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Reasonable Faith by William Lane Craig Pdf

This updated edition by one of the world's leading apologists presents a systematic, positive case for Christianity that reflects the latest work in the contemporary hard sciences and humanities. Brilliant and accessible.

Author : Niels Peter Lemche
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1991-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567451118

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The Canaanites and Their Land by Niels Peter Lemche Pdf

It is an interesting consequence of the new reconstructions of the early history of Israel that the Israelites must originally have been Canaanites. Nevertheless, an outspoken hatred against Canaanites permeates the Old Testament. Lemche presents a new way of explaining the anti-Canaanite sentiments of the Old Testament historians, while at the same time disclosing some of the aims and ideas which governed Old Testament history writing.

Author : Randal Rauser
Publisher : 2 Cup Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1775046249

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Jesus Loves Canaanites by Randal Rauser Pdf

And who is my neighbor? Christians confess the Bible as the Good Book, the perfect guide for becoming loving and holy, just like Jesus. And yet, that same book describes God commanding the Israelites to kill every Canaanite living in the Promised Land. How are we to understand the Bible as the Good Book when it depicts God commanding actions like genocide? How are we to reconcile this narrative with the God revealed in Jesus Christ, the God who taught us to love our enemies?In this bold new book, Randal Rauser defends a novel approach to the Canaanite genocide, one that remains faithful to our deepest moral intuitions even as it is guided by the conviction that Jesus calls us to love all our neighbors. And the Canaanite is our neighbor.

Author : Charlie Trimm
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467463263

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The Destruction of the Canaanites by Charlie Trimm Pdf

How can a good God command genocide? In this short, accessible offering, Charlie Trimm provides the resources needed to make sense of one of the Bible’s most difficult ethical problems—the Israelite destruction of the Canaanites as told in the books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, and Judges. Trimm begins with a survey of important background issues, including the nature of warfare in the ancient Near East, the concept of genocide (with perspectives gleaned from the field of genocide studies), and the history and identity of the Canaanite people. With this foundation in place, he then introduces four possible approaches to reconciling biblical violence: Reevaluating God—concluding that God is not good. Reevaluating the Old Testament—concluding that the Old Testament is not actually a faithful record of God’s actions. Reevaluating the interpretation of the Old Testament—concluding that the Old Testament does not in fact describe anything like genocide. Reevaluating the nature of violence in the Old Testament—concluding that the mass killing of the Canaanites in the Old Testament was permitted on that one occasion in history. The depth of material provided in concise form makes Trimm’s book ideal as a supplementary textbook or as a primer for any Christian perturbed by the stories of the destruction of the Canaanites in the Old Testament.

Author : Arie Versluis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004341319

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The Command to Exterminate the Canaanites: Deuteronomy 7 by Arie Versluis Pdf

In The Command to Exterminate the Canaanites: Deuteronomy 7, Arie Versluis analyzes the content and background of the Old Testament command to exterminate the nations of Canaan and discusses the moral and theological questions it evokes.

Author : Claude Reignier Conder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Canaanites
ISBN : NLI:2909052-10

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The Canaanites by Claude Reignier Conder Pdf

Author : Katell Berthelot,Joseph E. David,Marc Hirshman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199959822

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The Gift of the Land and the Fate of the Canaanites in Jewish Thought by Katell Berthelot,Joseph E. David,Marc Hirshman Pdf

A compelling analysis of Jewish thought from ancient times to the present on the issue of the gift of the land of Israel and the fate of the Canaanites.

Author : Susan L. Cohen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004369856

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Canaanites, Chronologies, and Connections by Susan L. Cohen Pdf

The Middle Bronze Age (MB IIA) in Canaan set the stage for many of the cultural, political, and economic institutions in the ancient Near East. Theoretical models for the analysis of complex societies examine textual, pictorial, and archaeological evidence.

Author : Katell Berthelot,Joseph E. David,Marc Hirshman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199959815

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The Gift of the Land and the Fate of the Canaanites in Jewish Thought by Katell Berthelot,Joseph E. David,Marc Hirshman Pdf

This volume of essays presents a compelling and comprehensive analysis of the intriguing issue of the gift of the land of Israel and the fate of the Canaanites as presented in diverse biblical sources. Jewish thought has long grappled with the moral and theological implications and challenges of this issue. Innovative interpretive strategies and philosophical reflections were offered, modified, and sometimes rejected over the centuries. Leading contemporary scholars follow these threads of interpretation offered by Jewish thinkersfrom antiquity to modern times.

Author : C. S. Cowles,Eugene H. Merrill,Daniel L. Gard,Tremper Longman III
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310873761

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Show Them No Mercy by C. S. Cowles,Eugene H. Merrill,Daniel L. Gard,Tremper Longman III Pdf

Did God condone genocide in the Old Testament? How do Christians harmonize the warrior God of Israel with the God of love incarnate in Jesus? Christians are often shocked to read that Yahweh, the God of the Israelites, commanded the total destruction--all men, women, and children--of the ethnic group known as the Canaanites. This seems to contradict Jesus' command in the New Testament to love your enemies and do good to all people. How can Yahweh be the same God as the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ? What does genocide in the Bible have to do with the politics of the 21st century? Show Them No Mercy explores the Old Testament command of God to exterminate the Canaanite population and what that implies about continuity between the Old and New Testaments. The four views presented are: Strong Discontinuity – emphasizes the strong tension, regarding violence, between the two main texts of the Bible (C.S. Cowles) Moderate Discontinuity – provides a justification of God’s actions in the Old Testament with strong emphasis on exegesis (Eugene H. Merrill) Eschatological Continuity – a reading of the warfare narratives that ties them contextually to the book of Revelation and the Second Coming (Daniel L. Gard) Spiritual Continuity – incorporates the genocidal account into the full picture of the Old and New Testaments (Tremper Longman III) The Counterpoints series presents a comparison and critique of scholarly views on topics important to Christians that are both fair-minded and respectful of the biblical text. Each volume is a one-stop reference that allows readers to evaluate the different positions on a specific issue and form their own, educated opinion.

Author : Ann E. Killebrew
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781589836778

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Biblical Peoples and Ethnicity by Ann E. Killebrew Pdf

Ancient Israel did not emerge within a vacuum but rather came to exist alongside various peoples, including Canaanites, Egyptians, and Philistines. Indeed, Israel’s very proximity to these groups has made it difficult—until now—to distinguish the archaeological traces of early Israel and other contemporary groups. Through an analysis of the results from recent excavations in light of relevant historical and later biblical texts, this book proposes that it is possible to identify these peoples and trace culturally or ethnically defined boundaries in the archaeological record. Features of late second-millennium B.C.E. culture are critically examined in their historical and biblical contexts in order to define the complex social boundaries of the early Iron Age and reconstruct the diverse material world of these four peoples. Of particular value to scholars, archaeologists, and historians, this volume will also be a standard reference and resource for students and other readers interested in the emergence of early Israel.

Author : Frank Moore CROSS,Frank Moore Cross
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674030084

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Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic by Frank Moore CROSS,Frank Moore Cross Pdf

Annotation The essays contained in this book are preliminary studies directed toward a new synthesis of the history of the religion of Israel. Each study is addressed to a special and, in the authors view, unsolved problem in the description of Israel's religious development.

Author : History Titans
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1795140682

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Ancient Canaanites by History Titans Pdf

Interesting look into the Ancient CanaanitesWhen you want to learn about the Old Testament of Bible, or you want to learn about the ancient Canaanites, one thing that you will come across that is the different people that the Hebrews met and in some cases, involved in the war when they walked into their territory. The Moabites and Edomites are among the many Canaanite groups that the Hebrews had to deal with, usually in a violent way, but still, there are thousands of other Canaanite groups which were most of the time named based on the cities they originated.Well, if you are curious and want to discover the fascinating history of the ancient Canaanites, The Ancient Canaanites is an excellent read for you. Even before the Hebrews conquered a kingdom, the Canaanites were one of the most critical groups in the Levant. The Bible has different references about the Land of Canaan. For instance, God commanded the Israelites to destroy the Canaanites after the Israelite flight from Egypt. But, the actual history of the civilization doesn't match the theological sources. One thing that you should know about the Canaanite civilization is that is comprised of a multitude of different people from the same ethnic group but different cultures. The region was also composed of mixed borders, and very few written records were left behind about Canaan. Therefore, it is hard for readers to get an easy to read and cohesive resource about the fascinating civilization of the ancient Canaanites. Well, that is about to change. In this book, you will discover the truth about the ancient Canaanite Civilization. Inside, you will learn about!-Exciting discoveries made by ancient Canaanites-Who are they?-What was their social class?-The culture of the Canaanites-Religion and beliefs-Their architecture-Remarkable insights about their Government-A brief description of Canaan-And many moreorder your copy today!Just click "add to cart!"