Ancient Israelites and Their Neighbors: An Activity Guide
Time Line his time line shows some of the important events in the lives of the ancient Israelites Phoenicians and Philistines Like this book it begins about 1200 B C E when the Israelites were settling in the hills of Canaan and ends about 600 years later when many Israelites returned home from captivity in Babylonia From the Bible you may know of the stories of Abraham Isaac and Jacob their wives Sarah Rebec ca Rachel and Leah and Moses who led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt These stories took place before this time line begins All dates in this timeline are B C E before the year 1 Some people use the letters B C for such dates Why do we say B C E You can read about it on page XV1 The symbol in front of a date means about 1100 B C E means about 1 100 years before the year 1 In ancient times people didn't use the same kinds of systems for dates that we do today Modern schol ars have to estimate when some things occurred and often they disagree Don't be surprised if you find different dates elsewhere for some of these
Finally these groups of people were very busy This time line lists only a few of the most important events in their lives Mass made an emergei He entered and on the same The team in net
Introduction bout 3 200 years ago huge changes occurred in lands around the eastern Mediterranean Sea Mighty empires buckled as shiploads of invaders attacked their coasts New people entered ancient lands among them the land of Canaan KAY nan or Ke NA an in western Asia Philistines FILL iss teens settled on Canaan's southern coast while Israelites IZ ray e lites built small villages on its sparsely settled hills Canaanites called the Phoeni cians fo NEE shuns took advantage of the weaken ing empires and began to create their own These three ancient groups the Israelites Phoenicians and Philistines shared the land once called Canaan during a time known as the Iron Age Their cultures are described in this book Where Was the Land of Canaan From synagogue or church you may think of Canaan as the home of the ancient Israelite people a coun try perhaps the size of modern Israel and the Pales tinian territories combined But ancient writings on stone or clay give a different meaning to the name Canaan In these inscriptions ancient Canaan was much bigger than modern Israel It included Lebanon
to the north parts of modern Syria and Jordan and Israel and the Palestinian territories Ancient Canaan was a region not a country Its inhabitants included the Jebusites EB yoo sites Horvites Amorites and others We don't know the names of all these groups The Bible sometimes just calls them Canaanites ANATOLA MESOPOTAMA SARDINA GREE Aerprise They won ASSYRLA Eagle River BABYLONIA MALTA For PHOENICIA FRAURISRAEL Mediteranean Sea EGYPT Aileener ARABIA The Mediterranean Sea during the Iron Age places mentioned in this book
