Didn’t the Bible also say that they were literal giants?
Comment on British Museum removes ‘Palestine’ from ancient Middle East displays
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago‘Levantine’ would have been a more accurate term. The ‘Canaanite’ term is specifically what’s used to differentiate from ‘Hebrews’ in zionism, both before and after Israel was created. Biblically Canaanites are Phoenecians, which are one of many Levantine tribes and city states of the Bronze and Biblical eras.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Also that people can be resurrected, that matter can be duplicated and all sorts of other bullshit
fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Some say what they were so large you could crawl into their anuses and use them as a type of motorcade. Giddy up.
napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
AFAIK it is common practice to call them Canaanites:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaan
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Not disputing that, but even in that section of explanatory text it uses ‘Levantine peoples’.
napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Well Levantine is the broader term, so you need it to define the more specific term Canaanite.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
It’s a broader term that is no less accurate. But it is also one more removed from political connotations since this is not just about using the term ‘Canaanite’ as it is also changing it from ‘Palestinian.’
Changing ‘Palestinian’ to ‘Canaanite’ in 2026 specifically means something more given the Israelite-Canaanite context.
It’s either malicious or stupid, and evidence is tending to the former for the group that sought the change and the latter for the museum.