RationalWiki's 2018 Fundraiser


If everyone seeing this today donates $5, we will meet our goal for 2018.

Fighting pseudoscience isn't free.

Donations so far: $2951Goal: $5000


From RationalWiki
Jump to: navigation, search
Light iron-age reading
The Bible
Icon bible.svg
Gabbin' with God

Canaan is a town in ConnecticutWikipedia's W.svg in the middle of absolutely nowhere the early Biblical name for the land that would later be called Israel, and then Palestine, and is now Israel again.

According to Genesis, Abraham and his family originally lived in Canaan. However, Jacob (Israel) and his sons moved to Egypt to take advantage of Joseph's high place there. By the time of Exodus, however, the descendants of Israel had all been enslaved. Charlton Heston came along and led them into the Sinai Desert. Eventually, they came back to Canaan, finding it fully populated with people already.

After this, Canaan became a fairly bloody place. The Israelites fought the Moabites, the Amalekites, and everyone else in their way. At various times, various nearby empires attacked as well. This is not too different from now, actually.

Deuteronomy 20:16-18 claimed that the people of Canaan were annihilated. This is false: recently analyzed DNA evidence shows instead that the Canaanites left many descendants.[1][2]