"If we refuse to learn the lessons of the past we are doomed to repeat them."
This generation of liberals knows next to nothing of the Bible and what it contains. All they have in their heads is that it is necessarily wrong.
Imagine how the “media” would be falling all over themselves to apologize if they’d made such a mistake of the mooselimb “bible”...
Where do people come up with this nonsense that the Israelites completely wiped out the Cannanites? They were to be driven out a little at time, some made treaties with the Israelites, but were never wiped out.
Even at the time of David there were still original Cannanites in the land.
Sad thing is, the nation split, and the Northern kingdom took to the religions of the Cannanites along with the two golden calves.
"If we refuse to learn the lessons of the past we are doomed to repeat them."
.. As well as the New Testament. I guess they forgot that disciple called Simon the Caananite otherwise known as Simon the Zealot.
Here is the direct link to the article in the American Journal if Human Genetics. What you’ll note is that the authors provide no reference for their statement. It thus is and example of strawman science in this regard. Or it could be called a flippant aside. Either way such a comment ought not have passed reviewer scrutiny.
I also noted reading the article that it is a lot of conjecture based upon use of multiple computer models but fairly small amounts of input data. It’s a lot like “climate science” except I’d say this is magnitudes more rigorous.
What is happening is a new orthodoxy for Western Culture 2.0 is being written.
http://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(17)30276-8
Uncertainties also surround the fate of the Canaanites: the Bible reports the destruction of the Canaanite cities and the annihilation of its people; if true, the Canaanites could not have directly contributed genetically to present-day populations. However, no archaeological evidence has so far been found to support widespread destruction of Canaanite cities between the Bronze and Iron Ages: cities on the Levant coast such as Sidon and Tyre show continuity of occupation until the present day.
Those who made false headlines about the Bible and the ancient people of Canaan were ignorant of what the Bible actually says.
Israelites were too few in numbers to totally displace
the original inhabitants
The Philistines and Canaanites had chariots which Israelite
did not have
Israelites stuck to the hill country leaving Canaanites
and Philistines in control of the coastal plains
A friend and I were talking about the Mooselib problem and I told him the story of Abraham, Sarah, Issac, Hagar and Ishmael.
He is a church going man but he was fascinated by the story and listened intently instead of his usual interruptions because he knows more about nearly everything than almost anyone. I remarked on his attentiveness to which he responded, “I go to church but I have never studied the Bible.”
A better friend and I always remark to one another, “It is in the Book.” If we would only pay attention.
bkmk
To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln on this topic “always err on the side of the Word and take the rest on faith”
I was just telling a family member that the basis for the Raiders Of the Lost Ark films was that Biblical archeology through the thirties in Palestine and environs was proving the Bible accurate; and then Hitler wanted biblical objects for his occult reasons.