Canaan : the Promised Land of Israelites between the Jordan, the Dead Sea, & the Mediterranean to which the Hebrews were led & settled.
... clung to the old Roman idea of assimilation which he sought to execute both by Roman and by un-Roman means. He showed even a tendency to go back beyond the Caesars of old to the methods of the Jew in Canaan and the Saxon in eastern Britain, methods of expulsion and massacre. But since he was after all modernised and had some sense of economic necessity and advantage, he could not carry out this policy ...
... and exclude the possibility of a mix-up. Instances are there of radical reversals of archaeological reading. The case of "the walls of Jericho" in relation to the period of the Israelite conquest of Canaan comes from the books of Kathleen Kenyon as a great lesson in complete chronological somersault. 2 A Chronological Caution in Passing Although not directly relevant to our ...
... of modern man's appearance further back into the past. Page 97 family, became its head on the death of his father. From Ur, the Chaldean capital, he led his kinsmen to the land of Canaan, Palestine. Coming as they did from the other side of the Euphrates, Abram and his household became known as 'Hebrews,' from a root meaning 'the other side.' The Patriarch's name, Abram, was changed ...
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