Canaanites: The Children of Baal

Last month we began studying the people who inhabited the land of Canaan when the Israelites arrived after forty years in the wilderness. Of the “seven nations” listed in Deuteronomy 7:1, we have already covered the Hittites, Amorites, Jebusites, and Hivites. Little is known of the Perezzites and Girgashites, so this month we will focus on the last group—the Canaanites. Though members of the Bronze Age (c. 3000 BC–1200 BC), they are primarily known to history through the Phoenician culture that...