But if this historical kernel is to be determined not by what the Bible says but by the imperfectly understood customs and traditions of the Canaanites, if Ugaritic is to be the standard for ...

The people of Canaan, said in the Bible to have been wiped out, actually lived to pass their genes to people of modern-day Lebanon.

The Canaanites were there before the Jews who escaped from Egypt, and the Philistines arrived. They all built cities with stone walls. They worked–bronze and copper in hot fires. They farmed and ...