Biblical scholarship, while identifying Canaan, has totally ignored Moses’ identifiable marks on its historical boundaries when he says, ‘ Your south shall be from Wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your border shall be the outermost coast of the ‘Salt Sea’ eastward(Nm 34;3); from south to the ascent of Akkrabbim and pass on to Zin, from south to Kadesh-barnea, and shall go on to Hazzareaddar, and pass on to Azmon(Nm 34:4); from Azmon unto the river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the ‘Sea’(Nm 34:5); your ‘western border’ shall be the ‘Salt Sea’; ‘north border’ from the ‘Great Sea’ to Mt Hor ; from Mt Hor-entrance of Hamath, the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad ; (Hazareans on north border) ; ‘east border’ Hazareans to Shepham ; coast Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain; the border shall descend, and shall reach unto the side of the Sea of Chinnereth eastward(Nm 34:11) ; the border shall go down to Jumna(Jordan) and goings out of it shall be at the ‘Salt Sea’, and this shall be your land with the ‘coast thereof round about’ (Nm 34;12).
Lord spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho(Nm 35;1).
Biblical scholars, instead of searching ancient Canaan through geographical situations as preserved in Ptolemy’s Maps, and maps of Eratosthenes, liked to locate this land by brushing up names of different tribal settlements as written in different ancient texts and inscriptions and in certain cases studying the etymological meaning of some names. And the total base of academic scholarships is based on archaeological evidences whose tools and tones are totally misleading. Nowhere a single biblical scholar is seen to have referred to Indian puranic sources, and to Pali texts.
Canaan is the ‘promised land’ of the Bible, and it is historically associated with story of Abraham and his descendants; it was at the centre of ancient astronomical sciences, and thus is termed as ‘idolatrous’;
Its metaphorical use creates confusion when biblical scholarship is still groping in darkness to correctly identify and understand the meaning of the name of this land.
Archaeologists’ attempt to find out Canaan has only added more salt to the injuries when ignorance on geographical situation of Canaan as a place in Near East prevails to astound one and all on the meaning of the ‘Near East’. Without identifying Canaan, scholars from different fields of academic world, have termed its inhabitants as belonging to an agricultural community at Jericho around 8000 B.C.
The name Canaan appears in Mesopotamia sources as well as in Phoenician and Egyptian inscriptions that dates them to around 18th to 15th c B.C. But these sources are not considered by scientists as secondary sources. Here the present Mesopotamia is not seen as a place of ancient migrants’ second settlement after the Flood.
Biblical scholarship finds Canaanites as Semitic peoples without properly defining what this ‘Semitic’ means in the period of human history. When for everything there appears scholarly cracking of periods of history like Early Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age, and Iron Age, biblical Canaan suffers from similar erratic descriptions through short sightedness of academic researches. Amorites, Hurrites(Horites), Egyptians, and Hyksos are all included in this Canaanite groups. Here, Horites themselves identify the ‘Urites’ or the people of ‘Hari’- who originally were the dwellers of the ancient Jerusalem. The Amorites same as the Morites marks the people of the land of Moeris or the land of the Mayura or the Peacocks. Egyptians were people of Og-island, again the same as the people of the Land of Agor or the Gorians, and Hyksos were the inhabitants of the Ikshu-island or the Island of Sugar-cane.
Each and every royal house in history is seen to have been pushed by its instinct or has shown its inclinations to attack Cannan and Jerusalem for no explanatory and visible reasons for history. But the reason for wars to capture Jerusalem arose mostly due to geographical compulsions followed by belief in God and belief in God’s abode in Heaven.
It is a wonder for history to see peoples of all nations to have buried their heads and feet in the desert sands of Canaan; we see people of Israel, Judah, Philistines, Phoenicians, Hittites, Edomites, Moabites, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Egyptians there except Persians and Indians which reminds us how history of the ancient world as reflected in the Bible has become the history of the people of Israel only where no Indians are found. This is what the modern scientific outlook pushes its theories by planting few pages to human history by recognising civilization of Israel whose historians do not know the meaning of many Hebrew words in OT. They do not know that Isgil which identifies their ancient base was an integral part of ancient Magadha, the Megiddo of the Bible. For what reason, and during what times in history, Isgil became Israel, is unknown to us. Even we do not know what is the meaning of Jews and with what meaning Israel projected its religious-self to outsiders and beyond its border in ancient world.
The sixth century B.C. world still lives in Pali texts which is more expansive in its historical contents than most of the other texts of its time. But it has been ignored completely when scholars try their hands to write history of this period. It is like raising the kingdom of ignorance around the facebook of human faiths.
Ruins of Mari recognises the meori or moeris of the ancient world, and to this, scholars identify as Canaan ; this cannot be the first mention on Canaan as Indian puranas and the Pali texts hold this name prior to that. Muri should be seen as a place raised after the Flood by the moeris migrants. Sumerian civilization should be identified similarly with Mt Sumeru of Ptolemy’s maps.
List of Babylonian kings exists in Bhagavata puranas. Hammurabi (1728-1686 B.C.E.) cannot be considered as the first king of Babylonia; and his name shows that he was connected both to Han(or Ham) and Rabi clans.
Some scholars connect the term Kinahau, found in Mesopotamia Tablets, as related to ancient Canaan; this Kinahau marks the exact term kantha( of Ptolemy’s Geography) or Sri-kantha and kanhu of Indian puranas; the latter is the other name for Krishna. The name is associated with Shyam, colour of a hill that imprints its colour whoever visits this hill. It was a place in Moab, or Madhuvana, means ‘forest of honey’.
Canaan, the son of Ham, was also the grandson of Noah; this name suggests that Canaan gave his name to this land which he received from his ancestors(Gn 10). This directly pinpoints the existence of the Mountain of Birds(Chhadheya) where Noah arrived during the Great Flood.
Flavius Josephus, ancient Jewish historians, took Hyksos to be Hebrews; these nomadic people were considered as belonging to Semitic stock around 1674 B.C; some scholars see Amorites as dwellers of Canaan who dwelt in the south of it(Gen. 14:7, Josh. 10:5, Deut. 1:19, 27, 44); Amorite rulers were described as residing at Heshbon and Ashroth, east of Jordan(Nm. 21:13, Josh. 9:10, 24:8, 12, etc.). Amorites are also seen same as Canaanites((Gen. 15:16, 48:22, Josh. 24:15, Jg. 1:34, etc.) but they were not included within the Philistines living on the coastal belt. Amorites of Ashroth and Heshbon are again as same as the inhabitants of Suratha and Asivana of Indian puranas respectively.
In Egyptian inscriptions, the terms Amar and Amurru are applied to the more northerly mountain region east of Phoenicia, extending to the Orontes.
While Amurru is as same as Amra, which is synonymous with similar other terms like Amba, Ambika, and Ambalika(three sister-deities of the region), Amar, reflects the region of mara
Name of Amurru is connected to most of the ancient literature, like the Assyrian, which in Indian puranas is called the country of Ashura; the reason why Canaanite area became synonymous with Megiddo in the Jezreel Valley is that it came under the rule of ancient Magadha, like the Kadesh on the Orontes River on the north. Because of the divine nature of the land of Canaan at the junction of seas, it enjoyed its versified position on all ancient literature and became the place of pilgrimage for the whole of the ‘inhabited world’.
Canaan and Egypt mostly are seen under one dominion; Thutmose III (1479–1426 B.C.E.), Amenhotep II (1427–1400 B.C.E.), and the reign of Amenhotep III, are attached to Canaan. Name of Abd-Ashirta, and his son, Aziru are also noticed as ruler of Canaan. Hittite rulers’ names are similarly linked with this place.
Akkadian empire finds the land of Mesopotamia within its jurisdiction and they both describe their journey in history under one empirical rule like Sargon the Great and Narasim-Sin of Akkad. The period described is 2300 B.C. Name of Sargon and Narasim is very popular in Indian [uranic history like that of Avesta. Even in Egyptian mythology Karnan and Narasiha is inseparably stand at the heart of stroy of Horus or Ra. Both Seti I(c. 1290 B.C.E.) and Ramses III (c. 1194 B.C.E.) are linked to the temple at Ka-n-na; even the Sumerian kings like Ensha-kushanna belongs to Uruk; the collapse of Akkadian empire by 2154 B.C. is seen as a result of arrival of migrants from the region of Mt Zargos which defines its situation to the east of the river Tigris. Sumerians’ link to Martu or Maruta, God of Storm is very interesting. It was to the west of the river Euphrates.
In the geographical narratives of Canaan, Akkad is same as Arka-bhumi (Uruk/Acco of the Bible) of Indian puranas; and Canaan or Ka-n-na, defines kana or angle or kona; and in Indian puranas this is identified with the Sun Temple at Konark; it is called Nrusihma kshetra as well as place of Lotus, or Padma-kshetra.
Unless this Canaan is truthfully identified by scholars of all branches of human knowledge, evolutionary history of humans would be treated as a blank page in its quest for life on earth