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To: rmlew

Then who are the Canaanite descendents?


32 posted on 08/24/2005 4:51:25 PM PDT by Rennes Templar ("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
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To: Rennes Templar
Then who are the Canaanite descendents?
If you are a Biblical literalist and read the Book of Joshua, then there are no descendants. If you are a Biblical Minimalist/Revisionist then Jews(13 million) and Samaritans(~735 left) are.
If you go by languages then one would look at the peoples associated with the Canaanite Branch of the Northwestern Semitic Family. Moav, Edom, and Ammon were in modern Jordan and Modern Jordanians are primarily of this stock. Ancient Hebrew was a Canaanite language although Masortic, Modern, and Samaritan Hebrew carry significant Aramaic elements. Hence, Jews and Samaritans are also Canaanites. Phonecians were Canaanites as well. Therefor so are modern Lebanese and at least some Libyans.
33 posted on 08/24/2005 5:32:06 PM PDT by rmlew (http://nycright.blogspot.com/)
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