Essays Tagged: "Canaanite"

The Serabit Inscriptions in light of the Wadi El Hol

rved. Scholars used to describe it as "isolated phenomenon, an unparalleled southern exportation of Canaanite literacy" . Before this discovery, scholars attributed "the Serabi inscriptions to the ear ... B.C., were discovered in the Sinai and in the Syrian-Palestinian area when occupied by the ancient Canaanites. Those examples, known as the Proto-Sinaitic and Proto-Canaanites inscriptions, were the ...

(3 pages) 16 0 3.0 May/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics

Near East: Jezebel - General Information

e influence of Jezebels own religious inclinations, Ahab expanded his religious policy to Israel’s Canaanite population as he built a temple for Baal in the capital Sumeria, creating a wider religiou ...

(7 pages) 8 0 0.0 Oct/2007

Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History > Ancient Egypt

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viticus, that was designed to provide a standard of moral behavior to distinguish the Jews from the Canaanites that they live among (Witt 4). The code was necessary in order to build the nation of Isr ... Once again, the Hebrew word for it has a strong connotation of referring to idol worship. Since the Canaanite culture included fertility rites that were actually various types of sexual intercourse in ...

(10 pages) 23 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith