Despite being known as masters of trade, these seafarers were never a single collective. Different groups built powerful ...

The relationship between Canaanite religion and the religion of the Old Testament is discussed in two articles in earlier issues of CHRISTIANITY TODAY (Cyrus H. Gordon, “Higher Critics and Forbidden ...

A Palestinian farmer in Gaza discovered a 4,500-year-old stone statue of a Canaanite goddess. The statue depicts the goddess Anat — the Canaanite deity of love and war. Historians believe that Anat ...

The ruins of an ancient blade factory unearthed in Israel may offer the clearest evidence yet of the Canaanites, a people long described in the Bible. Archaeologists in Kiryat Gat, about 40 miles ...

This article originally appeared on Haaretz, and was reprinted here with permission. Sign up here to get Haaretz’s free Daily Brief newsletter delivered to your inbox. “All the dust of the land became ...

The regular serial publication of the Society, issued quarterly, is the Journal of the American Oriental Society. The first volume, published in 1843-49, set the tone for all time in the broad scope ...

An ancient blade factory has been discovered in Israel, shedding new light on the existence of a biblical people known as the ...

The goddess of beauty, love, and war is now above ground. A farmer discovered the head of a 4,500-year-old stone statue in the Gaza Strip — it depicts the Canaanite deity Anat, BBC News reports. The ...

The people couldn’t have been so blind as to believe that the statue that Aaron had just made right before their eyes was their God. All the Israelites, even women, children and infants in arms, had ...

They are best known as the people who lived “in a land flowing with milk and honey” until they were vanquished by the ancient Israelites and disappeared from history. But a new scientific report ...