Posted on 03/30/2014 7:37:00 PM PDT by Nachum
“Phoenicians and Canaanites are basically the same group”
Did they ever run DNA testing yet to figure these races out? According to the Bible, the Caananites [Children of Cain] built a city in Jericho [world’s first] and taught the world metalworking. An major ‘prehistoric’ foundry was found in that general area. [fuzzy memory alert reg. all of this — cuniform was in its infancy for stock taking records during the time of that foundry.]
I read somewhere that the Kenites are connected to Cain but I'm not sure about that--there shouldn't have been any descendants of Cain left after the flood, if you follow the Biblical version of events.
I don't know where you would find any pure Canaanites or pure Phoenicians for DNA testing, unless maybe some DNA could be extracted from ancient graves.
Of course if he knew the Bible he would know that it was Philistines, the ancestors of the Palestinians, who were smitten with the jawbone of an ass.
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