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November 1, 2024

New Evidence of the First Canaanite Cities

A 5,000-year-old public building in Beit Shemesh.

This week’s Torah reading begins with the story of Noah, and ends with Abraham setting off on his journey to the Land of Israel—the first explicit reference to this territory in the Hebrew Bible. Judging from the biblical narrative, he lived in the first half of the second millennium BCE. Recent excavations have revealed ancient Canaanite cities even older. JNS reports:

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