Monday, December 25, 2023

Sooo history -- clearing up a lot of ignorance part 2

So the Canaanites have reared their heads in current urban legends about the population of the Holy Land over time, and I posted some history.

You can see from that history that the Israelites did not wipe out the Canaanites. On the Fact-Checking thread, I specifically wrote about the old genocide urban legends. I've tweeted about it too.

What's more, we know there were Canaanites in the 1220s BCE, three centuries after the Israelites came to the Holy Land.

Now there are new urban legends that pull in the Canaanites. The fact is, they are still with us. The people of Lebanon have a Canaanite inheritance.

And lol and behold, it is the same J2 Y chromosome haplogroup found in many Jews. It originated in NE Anatolia during the Neolithic and domestication of wheat, wine grapes, and animals, close to the Caucasus. You know. Near Ararat. Genesis 10 in the Bible gets another confirmation. 

So a) the Israelites did NOT kill off all the Canaanites b) the Canaanites were known to the Egyptian New Kingdom as living in the Holy Land and c) the Canaanites had descendants who are still with us.

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