Abram or Abraham found the land of Canaan filled with CANAANITES!
Now, Post Exodus, William Dever, an esteemed scholar is having trouble discerning who was who around 13th Century - 12th Century B.C.
My question stands.
How do you, with pick and shovel - digging through the layers of history - tell the difference among these tribes of people?
How do you, with pick and shovel - digging through the layers of history - tell the difference among these tribes of people?
There is no difference between the artificats of the Canaanites before the coming of the Israelites and Israelite artificats.
That is what makes many scholars think the Israelites may have been a group or sect of Canaanites who split off from the dominant society and developed the legend of the exodus hundreds of years later to explain what happened.