Patriarchal Palestine Canaan and the Canaanites Before the Israelitish Conquest: With a Map (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Patriarchal Palestine Canaan and the Canaanites Before the Israelitish Conquest: With a Map<br><br>A few years ago the subject-matter of the present volume might have been condensed into a few pages. Beyond what we would gather from the Old Testa ment we knew but little about the history and geo graphy of Canaan before the age of its conquest by the Israelites. Thanks however to the discovery and decipherment of the ancient monuments of Babylonia and Assyria of Egypt and of Palestine all this is now changed. A ?ood of light has been poured upon the earlier history of the country and its inhabitants and though we are still only at the beginning of our discoveries we can already sketch the outlines of Canaanitish history and even fill them in here and there.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.