The Big Upheaval: Canaan in the Thirteenth Century—Excursus

Abstract

CULTURAL MEMORIES DO not come out of nowhere. If the book of Joshua looks to the distant past as a time of major conflict between Israelites and Canaanites with some instances of peaceful coexistence, then likely the historical reality included both. So what actually happened between Israelites and Canaanites in the thirteenth century, the period when the historical record first identifies Israel as a distinct people?...