Canaan

Canaan or Kn?'an (Arabic کنعان, Kanʻān, Hebrew כְּנַעַן / כְּנָעַן, Kən?ʻan / Kənāʻan; Septuagint Greek Χανααν, Khanaan) is an ancient term for a region roughly corresponding to present-day Israel, the West Bank, western Jordan, southern and coastal Syria and Lebanon continuing up until the border of modern Turkey.

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According to the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, there were five places where "new" evidence on Canaanite culture had been obtained, including Tell-el-Hasy, eventually identified with the Lachish of the Old Testament, where excavations were made in 1890 to 1892 by Flinders Petrie and Bliss; and Gezer, identified with the Gezer of 1 Kings X.16, where R.A.S. Macalister began excavating in 1902. The Canaanite town of Ugarit was rediscovered in 1928, and much of our modern knowledge about the Canaanites stems from excavation in this area.

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Septuagint: The Septuagint (LXX) is the name commonly given in the West to the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) produced from the third to first century BC. The Septuagint Bible includes additional books beyond those used in today's Jewish Tanakh. The additional books were composed in Greek...

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Land of Canaan c.1750