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3,400-year-old Canaanite Fort to Be Incorporated Into High-rise
Ha'aretz ^ | January 6, 2016 | Ruth Schuster

Posted on 01/08/2016 3:20:29 PM PST by SunkenCiv

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Fragments of decorated pottery vessels imported from Cyprus and Greece 3,400 years ago. Photo credit: Guy Fitoussi, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority. [There's a 3,400 Year Old Canaanite Citadel in my Basement]

Fragments of decorated pottery vessels imported from Cyprus and Greece 3,400 years ago. Photo credit: Guy Fitoussi, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority.

1 posted on 01/08/2016 3:20:30 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

Every new Israeli high rise should incorporate a fort.

And a bomb shelter, and an arms room. Better safe than sorry.


2 posted on 01/08/2016 3:23:45 PM PST by BeauBo
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To: 1rudeboy; Mase; expat_panama
Among the artifacts discovered in the ruined citadel's rooms are ceramic figurines with human and animal forms, bronze weapons, and pottery vessels that hadn't been made locally -- they had been imported.

Now we know why the Canaanite civilization fell.....free trade.

3 posted on 01/08/2016 3:24:15 PM PST by Toddsterpatriot ("Telling the government to lower trade barriers to zero...is government interference" central_va)
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To: 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; ...
Another one of *those* topics.



4 posted on 01/08/2016 3:46:04 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: SunkenCiv

It had been destroyed at least four times by fire caused by 4 separate Suicide Chariot Bombs


5 posted on 01/08/2016 3:53:19 PM PST by bunkerhill7 ((("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione."))))))
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To: SunkenCiv
It had been destroyed at least four times by fire and was rebuilt each time...

But the fifth one stayed up!!

6 posted on 01/08/2016 3:56:58 PM PST by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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To: uglybiker; bunkerhill7

;’)


7 posted on 01/08/2016 3:58:32 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: uglybiker

She’s got large tracks O’land!


8 posted on 01/08/2016 4:01:31 PM PST by Mat_Helm
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9 posted on 01/08/2016 4:04:11 PM PST by Mat_Helm
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
The Philistines -- often nowadays their equated with Canaanites, despite the fact that the only existence either of them has is in the OT -- seem to have changed, culturally, linguisitically, and probably ethnically, over a period of centuries (who doesn't?), with olive oil presses and Greek pottery styles later on, at least one non-Semitic king name (all 7th c BC).
Giving Goliath His Due:
New Archaeological Light on the Philistines

by Neal Bierling
foreword by Paul L. Maier
online version
The name Goliath, like Achish, is not Semitic, but rather Anatolian (McCarter 1980, 291, Mitchell 1967, 415; Wainwright 1959, 79). Not all agree though; the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (2:524) proposes that Goliath may have been a remnant of one of the aboriginal groups of giants of Palestine who now were in the employ of the Philistines. [1. Naveh (1985, 9, 13 n. 14) states that Ikausu, the name of the king of Ekron in the seventh century b.c., is a non-Semitic name that can be associated with that of the Achish of Gath in David's time. The name in the seventh century has a shin ending that is non-West Semitic.]
(there's a later edition of the work, although I'm not sure it's still in print, the publisher was acquired)

10 posted on 01/08/2016 4:14:45 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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Geez, “their” s/b “they’re”. Wow.


11 posted on 01/08/2016 4:24:06 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Shhhhh! The so-called Palestinians will claim the building as being built by their ancestors and move in.


12 posted on 01/08/2016 4:26:49 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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13 posted on 01/08/2016 4:31:04 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: SunkenCiv

14 posted on 01/08/2016 4:39:22 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: SunkenCiv

I wonder if it will have a Ba’alcony?


15 posted on 01/08/2016 5:00:34 PM PST by this_ol_patriot
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To: this_ol_patriot

;’)


16 posted on 01/08/2016 5:02:55 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: SunkenCiv

My understanding is that the Philistines were one of the “Sea Peoples” who were migrating, raiding and invading around the turbulent period around 1,200 BC, when there were widespread collapses of many old civilizations around the Mediterranean and Mid East (the Late Bronze Age Collapse). They settled around current day Gaza around the time of the collapse.

Canaanites were local people in the Levant (current Israel and Lebanon) before the collapse (who many centuries later developed into the sea-faring Phoenician civilization). Canaan was also the place name, so different peoples at different times could be described as from there (as Canaanites).


17 posted on 01/08/2016 5:08:36 PM PST by BeauBo
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18 posted on 01/08/2016 5:11:57 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: BeauBo

There were no Sea Peoples as such — they were the Greeks, and the conventional pseudochronology is wrong by hundreds of years.


19 posted on 01/08/2016 5:13:33 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

If the Canaanites, Philistines, or one of the empires (Elamite, Akkadian/Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Hellenic, Roman, Byzantine, among other pre-Islamic powers) were still around, the Palis would be claiming they had no historical presence in the area.


20 posted on 01/08/2016 5:34:48 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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