HIttites

An interesting new work on the Chittim, best known to us as the people who sold Maaras Hamachpela to Avrohom. They were a people with an Indo-European language and customs, who also shared many Middle Eastern cultural norms. Being Indo-European, why are they classified as one the seven canaanite nations Perhaps, the refugees escaping the wreck of the mightly HIttile Empirey mixed with the native cannaanite population in the Land of Canaan and this is why they were considered to be one of seven nations. Pelishtim, on the other hand, retained their culture and ethnicity in entirety and are not considered as one of the seven nations.

Language similarities between Canaanites and Europeans are nothing new: Har Chermon -- Sidonites would call Chermon 'Siryon' and the Amorite would call it 'Snir'" (Devarim 3:9)

"'Snir'--that is snow in lashon Ashkenaz and in lashon Canaan." (Rashi)

Foreign prisoners of Ramesses III: Libyan, Nubian, Syrian, Shasu Bedouin, and Hittite

(Note that the Libyan has peyos. There is significant pictorial evidence that several Middle

Estern peoples cultivated peyos.)

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Please note that "leshon Canaan" in the lo'azim is not "Canaanite," but Slavic. In fact, Rashi would not have had a source for "Canaanite," which in any case it would seem to have been close, if not identical, with biblical Hebrew (although Rashi probably realized this, given the identification of Hebrew and the language of Canaan in Tanach itself). Snir means snow in Slavic, but certainly not in the Amorite language (ie, similar to Hebrew). In addition, the lo'azim which refer to Slavic are seen by Rashi scholars as later interpolations, which makes a great deal of sense considering where European Jews lived at the time of Rashi.

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