Posted on 06/19/2021 12:40:25 PM PDT by Cronos
After examining the DNA of 93 bodies recovered from archaeological sites around the southern Levant, the land of Canaan in the Bible, researchers have concluded that modern populations of the region are descendants of the ancient Canaanites. Most modern Jewish groups and the Arabic-speaking groups from the region show at least half of their ancestry as Canaanite.
In the study, published in Cell, the researchers explain that they used existing DNA analysis of 20 individuals, from sites in Israel and Lebanon, and then added 73 more, taking DNA from the bones of individuals found at Tel Megiddo, Tel Abel Beth Maacah and Tel Hazor (Northern Israel), Yehud (central Israel) and Baq’ah (central Jordan). By first eliminating individuals closely related to other individuals in the sample, then comparing the remaining 62 DNA samples against a dataset of 1,663 modern individuals, they were able to establish the genetic link to the modern populations. The ethnic groups either still living where Canaan once dominated, or from that area prior to moving elsewhere, are largely descended from the Canaanites.
Canaanite culture was dominant in the Southern Levant during the Bronze Age (3,500-1,200 B.C.E.) As Iron Age I began, the Canaanite city-states faded. The Israelites self-identified as a separate group. As Volkmar Fritz speculates in Israelites and Canaanites, the Israelites may have formed distinct living arrangements, establishing small villages on peripheral land not previously settled and living mostly in four-room houses. Ultimately, the Israelites formed the states of Israel and Judah, while other biblical states, Ammon, Moab, Aram-Damascus, and Phoenician city-states, emerged. Today, the region consists of Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, and southwest Syria.
The study in Cell not only establishes that the ancient Israelites were descended from the Canaanites, but also establishes that the Canaanite people across the separate city-states of the southern
I just wish the Jews and the Arabs would solve their problems in a Christian like manner...
Strangely enough there are some people in that area of Arabic or Jewish ethnicity who are Christians.
Read later.
Actually more than most would think. Even in Iran. That is why when I see folks voice that we should just nuke em all I have to ask “What about the all Christians there? Acceptable losses for the cause?”
Now here it turns out these two religions in the same region are cousins that happen to hate each other to death. This is why stereotyping can be an ignorant and failed concept. It is not based on true reality.
So much for Deuteronomy 20:16 and 17.
No wonder God was always mad at them.
I’ve heard guys argue that Melchizedek—the guy Abraham tithed who was the King of Salem—was not an anomaly among caananites in the region. rather his worship of the one true God was the rule. That in the +-700 of years between Abraham’s tithing and Joshua’s return to the area—the Caananites declined into apostacy and awful temple practices—perhaps caused by doubt and drought.
I’d like to hear other narratives of what happened to the caananites during the period between Abraham and Joshua.
Bkmk
Now it turns out that there were Americans on both sides during our Civil War.
You might have observed that one of the religious cousins was a Johnny-come-lately Satanic parody of the other.
I remember there being a genetic study that showed the middle eastern Jews and the Palestinians were genetically pretty much the same. The publication made the unprecedented move of recalling the magazine and removing the article. Like that’s going to work.
Ah, here it is....
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/nov/25/medicalscience.genetics
If Melchizedek was Shem, son of Noah, then Canaanite Jebusites must have conquered Salem between Abraham and Joshua.
https://www.aish.com/atr/Where-Was-Salem.html
… In fact the Sages identify Salem (“Shalaim”) as none other than the holiest city in the world, Jerusalem (Targum, Bereishit Rabbah 56:16; see also Psalms 76:3 where Salem is used in reference to Zion). The Sages also identify its king Melchizedek as none other than Shem, the son of Noah (Targum Yonatan, Targum Yerushalmi, Talmud Nedarim 32b).
(Melchizedek was more a royal title than a personal name, similar to the titles Pharaoh and Abimelech. See Joshua 10:1, where the king of Jerusalem is similarly referred to as Adonizedek. The commentators, with some variation, understand Melchizedek to mean “king of the place of righteousness.”)…
And in turn “Christianity” was once one religion from one origin. Now through stereotyping, certain sects call other sects Satanic and unrighteous.
So does this mean ‘Ashkenaz Jews descended from Khazars’ can’t be true?
I can't add much but I have read similar to what I believe you have read.
Lie.
As Iron Age I began, the Canaanite city-states faded. The Israelites self-identified as a separate group.
Second lie.
The Israelites had already established the Kingdom of Israel by 1350 BC.
They were in the land as a separate culture 400 years prior.
So no.
It’s so cool only a Canaanite could do it.
Most Iranians don’t want war with Israel and don’t see any relevance of Israel to their situation.
Iran has the lowest mosque attendance in the Muslim world after Albania and Bosnia, around 10% and most of the young don’t believe. The numbers of atheists and secret converts to Christianity and zoroastrianism are increasing as long as the Ayatollahs are in power.
There are the Amarna tablets dating to 1500 to 1300 BC
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