of Gera, the Benjaminite, and Elon the Zebulunite; Judg 3:15; 12:11), as well as by location (as Ibzan of Bethlehem; Judg 12:8). The latter would be expected had they been a sedentary people who moved from one settlement to another. Tribal names like the former do not seem to occur in the documents from Ugarit or in the El-Amarna Letters, where the term Habiru refers to a social class. By about 1000 BC the Canaanites had disappeared as an entity in the area occupied by Israel. However, the book of