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Headword:
Chanaan
Adler number: chi,79
Translated headword: Canaan
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proper name. And out of it [comes] Canaanites.
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Moses spent 40 years until his death with the chosen people, and he left behind Joshua the son of Nun as his successor, who took Israel to this land which was promised to the authority of Abraham: it is the circle from the river of Egypt across the sea and the desert. He cast out all the kings and the masters of the tribes there. Whoever was pursued by him across the sea of Egypt and Libya fled into the region of the Africans because the Egyptians did not welcome them, on account of their prior history, for they had suffered because of them and had been drowned in the Red Sea. So they fled for refuge to the Africans and the solitary country in which they lived, assuming their lands and customs, and they inscribed in tablets of stone the reason why they moved from the land of the Canaanites to
Africa. And even up until this time those very tablets are in Numidia, which proclaim this: "we are Canaanites, whom Joshua the raider pursued."[1]
And [there is] a feminine form
Chananaia.[2] Also [attested is the phrase]
Chananitis ge ['land of Canaan'].[3]
Greek Original:Chanaan: onoma kurion. kai ex autou Chananaioi. hoti Môüsês m# etê sumphilosophêsas tôi laôi teleutai, diadochon katalipôn Iêsoun ton tou Nauê: hostis katôikise ton Israêl en gêi, hêi epêngeilato kurios tôi Abraam: esti de apo tou potamou Aiguptou kukloumenê dia thalassês kai xêras: ekbalôn pantas tous basileis kai dunastas tôn ethnôn: hoitines hup' autou diôkomenoi dia tês paraliou Aiguptou te kai Libuês katephugon eis tên tôn Aphrôn chôran, tôn Aiguptiôn mê prosdexamenôn autous, dia tên mnêmên tên proteran, hên epathon di' autous en têi Eruthrai katapontisthentes thalassêi: kai prosphugontes tois Aphrois, tên erêmon autôn ôikêsan chôran, anadexamenoi to schêma kai ta êthê, kai en plaxi lithinais anagrapsamenoi tên aitian, di' hên apo tês Chananaiôn gês ôikêsan tên Aphrikên. kai eisi mechri nun hai toiautai plakes en têi Noumidiai, periechousai houtôs: hêmeis esmen Chananaioi, hous ediôxen Iêsous ho lêistês. kai thêlukon Chananaia. kai Chananitis gê.
Notes:
[1] Material attributed to John of
Antioch (frs.11-12 FHG, now 22.2 Roberto); cf.
Procopius,
History of the Wars of Justinian 4.10.13-22.
[2] This addendum is probably prompted by the 'Canaanite woman' with the devil-possessed daughter in
Matthew 15:22.
[3] See e.g.
Philo Judaeus [of Alexandria],
On Abraham 133.
Keywords: biography; Christianity; chronology; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; religion; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 14 July 2000@09:32:37.
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