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The Canaanites and their land : the tradition of the Canaanites / Niels Peter Lemche.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; ; 110.Publication details: Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (191 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780567451118
  • 0567451119
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Canaanites and their land.DDC classification:
  • 221.9/5 22
LOC classification:
  • DS121.4 .L46 1999eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Acknowledgments; Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 THE CANAANITES AND OLD TESTAMENT STUDY. INTRODUCTION; Chapter 2 THE CANAANITES AND THEIR LAND IN ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN DOCUMENTS: THE 2ND MILLENNIUM BCE; Chapter 3 THE CANAANITES AND THEIR LAND IN ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN DOCUMENTS: THE 1ST MILLENNIUM BCE AND LATER; Chapter 4 THE CANAANITES AND THEIR LAND ACCORDING TO THE OLD TESTAMENT. I: INTRODUCTION; Chapter 5 THE CANAANITES AND THEIR LAND ACCORDING TO THE OLD TESTAMENT. II: THE PENTATEUCH AND THE HISTORICAL BOOKS
Chapter 6 THE CANAANITES AND THEIR LAND ACCORDING TO THE OLD TESTAMENT. Ill: THE PROPHETIC AND POETIC BOOKSChapter 7 THE CANAANITES. RESULTS, CONCLUSIONS, CONSEQUENCES; Bibliography; Index of Biblical References; Index of Authors
Summary: 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.
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Acknowledgments; Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 THE CANAANITES AND OLD TESTAMENT STUDY. INTRODUCTION; Chapter 2 THE CANAANITES AND THEIR LAND IN ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN DOCUMENTS: THE 2ND MILLENNIUM BCE; Chapter 3 THE CANAANITES AND THEIR LAND IN ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN DOCUMENTS: THE 1ST MILLENNIUM BCE AND LATER; Chapter 4 THE CANAANITES AND THEIR LAND ACCORDING TO THE OLD TESTAMENT. I: INTRODUCTION; Chapter 5 THE CANAANITES AND THEIR LAND ACCORDING TO THE OLD TESTAMENT. II: THE PENTATEUCH AND THE HISTORICAL BOOKS

Chapter 6 THE CANAANITES AND THEIR LAND ACCORDING TO THE OLD TESTAMENT. Ill: THE PROPHETIC AND POETIC BOOKSChapter 7 THE CANAANITES. RESULTS, CONCLUSIONS, CONSEQUENCES; Bibliography; Index of Biblical References; Index of Authors

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.

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