Introduction to Ancient Canaan and the Canaanites 

@UCn0XMDyG6eUuYQkn5g2KrbQ Hi. When I talk about Semitic, I am referring to the language family - Canaanites spoke a western Semitic language. I'm not talking about race or ethnicity. I probably should have made that more clear in the video. Thanks!

@@HistorywithCy if they share a language tree wouldn't they also be related biologically and culturally? Barring a big migration that led to some geographic isolation I mean.

@@E.J.Crunkleton Hi! Sure, I believe that's the case most of the time, especially in the ancient world. In my opinion, language is greatest unifier and promoter of culture, I'd argue even more so than ethnicity and religion. Thanks for stopping by the channel!

@@HistorywithCy thank you for the great content!

History with Cy The Canaanites were Semitic, both ethnically and linguistically, regardless of what the Biblical opinion is. The biblical narrative is based on making sure the enemies of the Israelites are not of the same “stock” as them, it’s full of this kind of bias. Ironically, historical research is proving that the ancient Hebrews were in fact Canaanites themselves, the whole story of coming from Ur of the Chaldees has no historical and and archeological backing, and Hebrew is in fact a Canaanite language, not an Aramaic based one like the religious narrative suggests. Anyways, if you want to get an estimation of how the Canaanites looked like just take a look at modern Palestinian and Lebanese people, a very Mediterranean look, pretty close to Greeks, Italians and Spaniards... Cheers

Definitely! More to come in the next few days...thanks so much for the support!

Cy! hook me up with the history! I am enjoying the Archaeology!

Thanks so much, I really appreciate it! Sure, we could one day do a future collaboration. Write to my email (in the "About" section) if there's something you'd like to cover. Thanks and appreciate the kind words!

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Thank you! Yeah, it's becoming more of a steady stream. Glad to know that there are more like you out there who find this stuff interesting. Thanks again for stopping by!

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Hi! It appears to be my approach to the subject. I definitely acknowledge and use the Old Testament as mentioning Canaanites, but they are also featured in ancient Egyptian, Syrian (the Mari archives), Mitanni, Hittite and the texts and inscriptions of several other peoples of the ancient Mediterranean. These, along with archaeological findings, must also be taken into account which I think some people do not recognize. There are several who in the comments have made it clear that a literal reading of the Bible is the only way to view the subject and, well, you can see where the disagreement with the material in the video comes from. Anyway, I respect everyone’s opinion, just not the profanity, lack of respect for others and in a couple of cases, threats (hence why for the first time I’ve had to monitor comments to make sure they’re rated PG). On that note, thanks for stopping by and glad you got something out of it!

The like to dislike ratio is overwhelmingly on the side of like. A 100 likes for one dislike. And well deserved!

@jay Thanks, I appreciate it! I'll still make of these for sure... right now studying the kingdoms of Israel and Judah and their wars with the Assyrians. Really interesting to see how other powers were also involved the conflict. An episode (or two) will be coming on the Phoenicians soon... hopefully in the next month or two. Thanks again for stopping by!

@@violajohn5159 Thank you! Yeah, that's to be expected... a lot of people with knowledge from different soruces and so there's bound to be some disagreement. Thanks for stopping by the channel, I really appreciate it!

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Hi! I said in the video that they are mentioned in the Bible as the descendants of Ham, but archaeologists/linguists/historians classify them as a Semitic-speaking people because their language, Canaanite, falls into the Semitic family of languages. I probably should have made these distinctions clearer in the video. Cheers!

@@HistorywithCy Thank you for the clarification!

@@HistorywithCy makes sense even people like the Greeks and Egyptians who lived along side them had a hard time distinguishing the two groups of people apart from one another.

That not true .

@@americanparser There's an Insurmountable Difference between the Biblical/Hebrew-Jewish fiction mythical "canaanites" the Čhanaanim and The non Hebraic Prebiblical aka Gentile by background True Canaanites or Kananians. The first is the Hebrew-Jewish "canaanites" the Čhanaanim. They are descendents of Adam and god Yahweh from noah or noačh through ham or čham as he's rightly called originally. They are cursed and forgot about worshipping yahweh/yahuwah the hebraic god and make up new gods on the spot of yahweh. They have "immoral practices" idol worship, child sacrifice, temple prostitution (bet čhodesh), practice dark magic, and spoke Hebrew (like the example is in genesis/berashit ch 50 where yoshep mourns for yačhob his father with these unrelatable egyptians called mitsrayim and the canaanites say "abel mitsriyim" which is Hebrew language), as well as incorrectly in a land that the Jews/Hebrews in their fantasy land isn't theirs originally somehow clearly randomly, and finally they have all kinds of disgusting sex with everything in site like family to friends to animals to objects. All this to name a few false descriptions about canaanites in general real world view and others, this let alone all their "kings" melečhim are all bad. That's that on the Hebrew fiction mythos with bible/tanak on. Now to the real World Canaanites the True Canaanites aka Kananians. The Canaanites Really are Gentile origin not Jewish/Hebrew they are preadamitic thus again proof as gentile by definition and nature and more. They are Created by the True Gods the Original Real Elohyim (Iluma in their language as will be explained onward here) like El, Asherah, Baal-Hadad the Supreme baal unknown to the ancient hebrew-jews whom created their fiction and then later composed it into the bible books in post antiquity times of late iron age. They the True Canaanites are Semitic like the hebrews (thus should be shem related not čham even they both including japeth/yapet are semitic or Hebrew characters of jewish-hebrew fiction made up in post antiquity) and they instead in correction too and truth shown they birthed the Hebrews instead of the Hebrews birthing them and they helped created their hebraic god yahweh/yahuwah/Allah with their own Gods and the canaanites themselves over some time post bronze and through out low iron age. The True Canaanites never had any cities like "sodom and gomorah" or knew camels in the 1800-1200 bce era which is the earliest time the Hebrews say their Čhanaanim (canaanites) came too be. The True canaanites knew camels in the iron age early on like 900 bce when the first real Hebrew jews ever came too exist their first kings like David and Solomon who in Truth we're half Canaanite and small Jerusalem rulers who were even able to sit on the low throwns of broken down canaanite lands on Jerusalem of the time since 900 bce Jerusalem was small and shrunk from lack of commerical trade and defense from the local Kananians and long past egyptian rulers who helped build up it especially when king abdi hepa ruled his city jerusalem. The canaanites in the real world have many pious virtues and taboo sins they condemned like rape, child sacrifice, misusage of slaves, temple desecration, and corrupt Kingship too name a few. Real Canaanites used idol statues for God Worship not worship of the object itself but the God/s themselves behind it's symbolic representation and it's semi dwelling place for the Deity. True Canaanites spoke their actual language which is the direct and indirect father/mother to both Hebrew and arabic. As stated in the last paragraph the canaanites would've instead say 'Ablu Misrami' or 'Ablu Misru'. Plus also they called themselves Kana'ani or Kinanu or Kana'ana. Those are pure and better along with their word for holy (unlike Hebrew čhodesh) is Kudushu or Qadishti. And lastly kings were to rule Rightly and Godly and not sinfully or corrupt as many kings in the world and others were supposed to conduct themselves with piety and even watched over by a high priest or prophet (Canaanite: Nabu vs Nav :Hebrew). Etc etc Other things to point out with Truth and Light is that magic use was not to be dark magic or occult like related. That was Hatta to the Canaanites/Kananians and the Gods. Magic was used to worship and glorify the Divine Ones (Qadishumi Aliyanu translated Most High Holiness). The Kananian Gods have no chosen people or acclaimed bloodline choice; the covenants made by them with lesser beings like humans is the individual person's choice to follow and worship that God/Goddess/Deity. In true God Given Real world the Levantine lands of Kanania like ancient Israel/Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and tinsy tinny tip of north west Saudi Arabia and Sinai was fought in war in early iron age too bronze age back and into real Hebrew time like late mid to late iron age forward by the True Canaanites the Kananians in fact Hebrew-Jews biblically and non at the same time practiced Canaanite customs and contrary to the tanak/bible it was Godly Tsaddečh (Hebrew for righteous coming from the parent canaanite language word for righteous Tizaddiku). All in all in conclusion it's clear as stated at the start, the Hebrew-jewish (Aka biblical/Hebraic fiction mythos fantasy) "canaanites"? The Čhanaanim (whom are nothing more but the Hebrews themselves) are nothing alike and purely alienated to the True Canaanites the Kinanu or Kana'ani who are real and more than just existed but left endless traces of themselves like the Mesopotamians (Real True Babylonians/Assyrians unlike the Hebrew Jewish fiction of post antiquity also the Ashurim and Babelim among the čhetim the Hebrew fiction "hittites" who like the "Philistines" Hebrew palashetim whom both are semitic hebrew like and in the land that is not Palestine ancient related or even time periods correct. More on another time.) Hebrew Čhanaanim vs True Gentile present Canaanites aka Kananians. The first is all a Lie and godless deception of Devils. The other is the real World God/s (Iluhimu Aliyani) Truth Forever (Ulami). There you go my Kananian friends, and I hope you guys enjoyed this very long post. Shalamu Li Kumu Qadishu Kinaani Ulamu. Shalamu Shalami Salamu Salami Laki Shalam

Isidora Johnson The European are the same people as the ancient remains found in Israel. They are covering their people’s past.

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Hey, great to see you again and thanks for stopping by! Oh, they're coming up soon... just finishing the script on them!

@@HistorywithCy glad to hear it, you are awesome!

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And I can't wait to finish it for you all...it's coming soon! Thanks so much for stopping by the channel!

Stargarden- The Phoenicians and the Canaanites were one and the same. The “Phoenicians” of the Bronze and Iron Age are called “Canaanites”; the Canaanites of the archaic and classical periods are called “Phoenician”. The first ethnonym (Kanaanim) is of west Semitic origin (even though the groups of peoples we now collectively call “Canaanites” had a variety of endonyms for themselves). “Phoenician” is an exonym- the name given to the ancient coastal Levantines by the Greeks (Phoinikes, i.e. the “Red People”) likely because the Greeks associated them with the manufacture and trade of the famous “Tyrian” red-purple cloth (the ‘royal purple’) which was so prized in antiquity. Much more to be said, but essentially that’s it in a nutshell. 🥜

The Phoenicians were the Canaanites. Phoenicia is a greek term referring to the purple tints they traded with. The Phoenicians called themselves Kenaani, or Canaanites.

Oh definitely... that and about the development of the Ugaritic alphabet! Thanks for the suggestion and your support, it's always greatly appreciated!

An article by A. F. Rainey in The Biblical Archaeologist (1965, p. 105) states that on ethnic, political, and, probably, linguistic bases “it is now clearly a misnomer to call Ugarit a ‘Canaanite’ city.” He gives further evidence to show that “Ugarit and the land of Canaan were separate and distinct political entities.”

@@JasonJacksonJames Yes I believe you're correct about it generally not being considered by many as part of Biblical Canaan, but Ugarit did have a flourishing Canaanite community and culture. From what I've been reading (and my studies are still incomplete), it was quite a cosmopolitan city with many different groups - not just Canaanites but Hurrians, evidence of Luwian-speakers and of course your traders from Egypt, other parts of the Mediterranean and Mesopotamia. Seems like Ugarit was a cool place to be!

Sure! The tracks are: Oman Countryside Frequent Traveler Approaching the Middle East On some of them I just used the stems, not the whole song. Anything else, please don't hesitate to ask. Thanks!

@@HistorywithCy Thanks man. That was very nice of you. May I ask what your next video is going to be about? Just for curiosity

No problem! More on ancient Mesopotamia... still have more I want to cover with regard to this subject...thanks!

From ur the first one , then scaped from Egypt

They came out of Egypt as the Hyksos in two separate waves, the second being Joseph and his people.

Oh, you'll find them very interesting, especially the correspondence between the Hittite kings and the Egyptians!

@@HistorywithCy the Armana tablets that confirms the time of Solomon

RTR SCATTEREDABROAD - Amarna.

Yeah they have a lot of information!

i really appreciate the information, this is about the close I will ever get to Egypt

Thank you, I know that pronunciation is at times my weak point, something I try to work on...especially names with "ch" like Lachish. Thanks again for stopping by, I appreciate the feedback!

History with Cy - I only mention it because your historical research and narrative are stellar; the little details, like pronunciation, may unfortunately seem to some pedants (not myself) as detracting from an otherwise flawless presentation - the devil, as they say, is in the details. Keep ‘em comin’!

haha yes, I'm still around... not going anywhere! Glad to see you're still into this stuff as well!

? the Canaanites sude are just the Dravidians who are the original Mediterranean and Sumerian people LOL The only Semites to mix with the Canaanites were the Amorites and Akkadians

@@wayneh1562 We Sumerians, Canaanites are not indians

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Hi, and thanks for stopping by the channel! Thanks also for the info! Yes, I tend to call the Phoenicians "coastal Canaanites" and agree with you that it's a Greek term that has been adopted in European languages. I will be doing a video on the "Phoenicians" soon where I'll do my best to explain all of this. It will also focus a lot on the various Phoenician city-states and kingdoms and their interaction with the rest of the Mediterranean and the world. Stay tuned and once again, thanks for stopping by!

Oh that' really interesting...thanks for sharing. I'm also interested in sub-Saharan Africa, especially during the medieval period and kingdoms of Mali, Ghana and Songhai empires. Thanks again!

Thank you! That's interesting... I get some complaints that the sound is too low. I'll take a closer look into it...thanks again!

Yeah...it's where the word "Armageddon" comes from... it's definitely had a turbulent history... thanks for stopping the channel, I appreciate it!

The Phoenician language and Hebrew are about as different from each other as American English and British English. They’re almost exactly the same.

@@mikeappleget482 That's right, the only difference is that Hebrew is written in Aramaic script but that's only been the case since the Babylonian exile, before that the script they used was identical. The Phoenicians themselves were Canaanite as well

Yes, I have one coming up later this month...I'll be a longer one more focused on the political history of the time...thanks for stopping by, I really appreciate it!

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Shikmu is the Canaanite way to say it.

Haha, no I meant in the other direction. Live long and prosper!

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The name Moses is derived from an Egyptian word for river.

Nonsense

Assuming you're on a mobile device, There are volume booster apps. I work in a factory and listen to RU-vid all night. The volume booster app i use makes this possible as most videos are too quiet to be heard clearly in my work environment.

Hi, thanks for stopping by, I really appreciate it! More to come for sure and I'll see what I can do in future videos to talk about the ancestry of certain groups. The only issue with that is often it starts bitter debates in the comments where people start insulting others and getting really nasty and offensive, so I've often not gone too deep into that. But thanks for the suggestion, I appreciate it. Stay safe!

You are Canaanite we are Palestine before there were any hebrews or they invaded our lands 3000 some years ago.

Hi, thanks for the comment and letting me know. I tried to make sure that the music wasn't louder than the voice (a problem with some past videos). Thanks for letting me know, I'll take a look into it.

@@HistorywithCy Thank you for your explanation. You are absolutely right in avoiding the common pitfall of a bad background music drowning the Narrator's voice. The music selection is equally important. If you do re-record louder, please notify me. I am from Lebanon & a Canaanite historian. I may have a lot to contribute. Thank you also for your interest in our rich & diversified culture!

@@samray397 Thanks so much! That's great you're a historian on this and related topics, would love to discuss more with you...the more I learn, the more questions I have! As of now my next major vids on this region will be on the Phoenicians (I guess you could call them coastal Canaanites), Israelites, the city of Ugarit and the regional wars with Assyria. Any advice that you have, please don't hesitate to email me (address in the ABOUT section of the channel). Thanks again!

Thank you! With regard to your question, that will hopefully be covered in future videos when I get to the medieval period and beyond. This video just focused on ancient Canaan before the Persians, Greeks, Romans and others came into the region. I definitely want to go further with the history of this land, but that'll be in other videos...Thanks again for stopping by!

Islam didn't exist until after Mohamed's birth. The Arab's didn't really have a serious presence in Canaan until after the Romans evicted many of Jews/ Israelites after their rebellion against the empire. In both instances we're talking about events that happened after the area known as Canaan had been known as the kingdoms of Judea, Israel and Phoenicia.

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Oh yeah, there's several that come to mind: battles of Jericho, Ai and really any battle with the Philistines, which one could argue are a Canaanite people (if you're using Canaanite to describe any inhabitants of the land of Canaan). Thanks for stopping by the channel, more to come soon!

@@HistorywithCy Were there Canaanite kings who encountered king Solomon?

While we know Philistines aren't indigenous to Canaan, because of traces of their language and pottery, the Hebrews (Jews and Israelites) were probably just a union of groups of Canaanites. They have the same language, pottery and culture as the other Canaanites.

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@@Abilliph Yes, this scenario appears to be emerging from archaeology.

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Guaranga Picante Ba’al just means Lord, you mean Moloch or passed through the fire as they say.

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@@albusai Phoenician.