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 | | Canaan or Kná'an (Arabic کنعان;, Kanʻān, Hebrew כְּנַעַן / כְּנָעַן;, Kənáʻan / Kənāʻan; Septuagint Greek Χανααν, Khanaan) is an ancient term for a region roughly corresponding to present-day Israel, the West Bank, western Jordan, southern Syria and southern Lebanon. |
 | | According to the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, there were five places where "new" evidence on Canaanite culture had been obtained, including Tell-el-Hasy, eventually identified with the Lachish of the Old Testament, where excavations were made in 1890-1892 by Flinders Petrie and Bliss; and Gezer, identified with the Gezer of I Kings x. |
 | | Soon after this, the great empire-builder and law-giver Hammurabi (1728-1686 BC), first king of a united Babylonia, extended Babylonian influence over Canaan and Syria, and he may be identical with the Amraphel of Genesis. |
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