• masterofn001@lemmy.ca
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    8 days ago

    They genocided the Canaanites in all of them.

    There is historical/archaeological/genetic evidence.

    That was how they stole that land in the first place. By murdering every man, woman, child, and animal in the land.

    • MisterScruffy@lemmy.ml
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      8 days ago

      Genocide of the canaanites is definitely in the Bible but possibly/probably didn’t happen as much as the Bible says. I’m sure there were times when whole cities were put to the sword but a lot of the stories in the Bible seem more like they were made up later as a way of claiming racial purity. It made it so the Hebrews could say “there’s no way we’re mixed with canaanites cuz we killed all the canaanites”