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Canaanites The people group living in the land of Canaan prior to and during the rise of the Israelites.
The history of the Canaanites is debated; Lemche, Thompson, and Davies have gone so far as to say that the Canaanites were fictional antagonists invented to oppose the Israelite protagonists (Lemche, The Canaanites and Their Land, 7). This extremist position, however, is not the norm in ancient Near East studies.
The land of Canaan changed shape and size over time. The way the word is used in the Amarna letters suggests that “the whole of Egypt’s province in the Levant was called ‘Canaan,’ ” (Drews, Canaanites and Philistines, 47). Neo-Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, and Greek sources make no mention of Canaan, suggesting that by the eighth century, the geographical region was no longer known by that name.
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