Nadene Goldfoot
Remember Noah and his Ark landing on Mt. Ararat? He saved his family in the gigantic flood and landed on a new piece of land. One of Noah's sons was Ham.. He also had Shem and Japheth. All three were born after the flood.. Ham treated his father terribly. Because of this, Ham's descendants, the Canaanites, were cursed and condemned to servitude. (Gen. 9:20) From these three sons came the first seventy from which humanity was derived after the flood had wiped out everyone but Noah's group. The story was also found in the Babylonian Gilgamesh epic. It is in the Torah in Genesis.
What happened was that Noah debased himself and planted a vineyard after they left the ark. He drank the wine and became drunk. In this drunken state he took off his clothes inside his tent in order to sleep but must not have covered himself. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside, "Dad's naked! Come see! Ha, Ha!" Brothers Shem and Japheth reacted differently to this news. They took a garment and laid it on both their shoulders, as they were little and it was heavy and large, walked into the tent backwards so they couldn't look at their father, and covered Noah but didn't look at him.
Noah woke up, most likely with a hangover and realized what his small son had done to him. It must have been Canaan who was always in trouble for him to immediately realize that it took two children to cover him with this big cloak because one had caused them to do so. He said, Cursed is Canaan; a slave of slaves shall he be to his brothers. Blessed is HaShem (G-d, which here means the Name); and let Canaan be a slave to them. May G-d extend Japheth, but he will dwell in the tents of Shem; may Canaan be a slave to them."
Ham was in turn the father of Cush, from which Nubia and Ethiopia came from; Put, from which Libya and Morocco came from; Mizraim, from which Egypt came from; and Canaan,who was the youngest, from which Syria and Eretz Israel (later called Palestine after 135 CE) came from. Canaan was cursed before he was even born when it was his father who had done wrong. Was that prophesying what would happen with the DNA? He could have been thinking, This son Ham of mine is a little devil. I imagine that at least one of his children is going to grow up to be a trouble-maker just like he is."
"Canaan's sons were Zidon and Heth. and they propagated into the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Gingashite, the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite, the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterwards, the families of the Canaanites branched out. The Canaanite boundary went from Zidon going toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; going toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha. These are the descendants of Ham, by their families, by their languages, in their lands, in their nations. "
It was the land of Canaan that G-d told Moses to take the children of Israel for their home. The Israelites had to fight their way in as they were not greeted with a welcome. The 12 spies that Moses sent out thought they were too big to fight against, but Joshua thought they could handle the situation. Scientists of today think they were a mixture of Horites, Hittites and Hebrews, dating back to the Hyksos period of the 17th Century BCE. The Canaanites were almost entirely obliterated or assimilated by the Israelites who had arrived in the 13th Century. There were Philistines along the coast in the 12th Century, and the Arameans in the north in the 11th Century. The remnants of people were absorbed into the community and ruled under King David and Solomon. Much later we see the name, Canaanites preserved only among the Sidonians and Phoenicians.
The land had been cultured for the past 500 years before the Israelites had arrived. They were growing huge grapes and other agricultural products. They believed in many gods called Baalim (lords) and Baalot (ladies). One was a Baal. This was something Moses was getting away from as that's what was going on in Ur when Abraham entered Canaan.long ago and of course Egypt was also a land of multiple gods of all descriptions. "The Canaanites were "disobedient" (Heb. 11:31) which is from the Christian New Testament, a term indicating a moral awareness of wrongdoing but a refusal to turn from it."
The land of Canaan was the name for Syria in the 15th to 13th centuries BCE, usually applied to the coast of Eretz Israel. Before the Israelite conquest, the land was divided into small city-states like Greece. The Israelites named the land "Eretz Israel" and the northern part which today is Syria, "Aram." Arabs traversing the land on camels when Jews made aliyah from Russia in the late 1800's CE called themselves Syrians.
Eretz Israel was attacked many times. In 722 BCE the Assyrians attacked and carted off people from 10 of the 12 tribes of Israel, who then were lost to Judah and Levi tribes. Later the Babylonians did the same thing. Sometimes people were brought into the land and replaced by the attackers which is what happened with the Samaritans. Originally they were of the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh but also included a mixture of non-Israelite colonists. Only the Jews remained as a people who were the remnants of the 12 tribes of Israel. On the 40 year march, Moses had told his people that they should not reject an Edomite, because he is your brother, and you should not reject an Egyptian, for you were a traveler in their land. Children who are born to them in the 3rd generation may enter the congregation of HaShem (G-d). Deuteronomy 33: 7-24:4.
Are the Palestinians today the actual Canaanite people? Hardly! However, some of those who were assimilated have planted themselves in the genes of Jews and non-Jews who lived there and are with us today in our chromosomes, no doubt. We all carry 23 pairs of chromosomes; one of a pair from our mother (mt dna) and one from our father (Ydna).
A few years ago I had a DNA test through a company called "23&Me." I matched genes with another lady tested there and we found we shared 67cM found on 6 of our chromosomes which were # 1,6,8,9, and 2 spots on #10, and 12. A cM (centi Morgan) is a measurement of dna on a chromosome and is a very short segment. This means we are related but that relation goes back quite far, farther than the knowledge I have on my family tree. We did share a heritage of being Eastern European Jewish women. The least I share with someone so far is 6cM on #7 chromosome. I had about 1,000 hits of sharing these wee amounts with others that must connect us so far back in history.
Bryan Sykes wrote the book "the Seven Daughters of Eve," which are Ursula, Xenia, Helena, Velda, Tara, Katrine and Jasmine. He showed that 98% of all people of Western Europe descended from 7 women who lived in Europe within the last 50,000 years. A few have been added to this list, such as the newer discovered "W" for Wilma, which my paternal grandmother happens to be. Women's DNA (MTdna) can go back very far. That's why they can only check for this in DNA testing on Egyptian mummies. Ydna of men can't go back as far, unfortunately at this time. The women 50,000 years ago or clan mothers descended from a common ancestor the scientists call "Mitochondrial Eve" who lived in Africa about 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
Jasmine was found to have originated in Syria, with the home about a mile from the Euphrates River when the Great Ice Age was at an end. Jasmine's descendants are not evenly distributed evenly throughout Europe which contains about 17%.. One branch follows the Mediterranean coast to Spain and Portugal and goes into Cornwall, Wales and west of Scotland. People did get scattered around..
As for Ydna originating in Canaan, the E and E3a, E3b haplogroup, very common with Jews originating in Africa 50,000 years ago, contains a number of groups in Africa and the Middle East. J, J2, J1 arose 10,00-15,000 years ago in the fertile crescent and includes Jews, Arabs, Armenians and Kurds with the highest in Iran and Iraq. The Cohen gene is from J1. The majority of Jewish men tested fall into J.
So far I find through another company where my brother was tested for both Ydna and MTdna, that his male line Y is finding matches with Arabians and Afghanis That's a pretty big surprise for a Jewish man today. They are not close matches like first cousins, but again, way back in history, we may have had a common ancestor because we're sharing the same line of Ydna, showing mutations of the distance of time.
Recently, scientists said that all Jewish women descended from 4 original Jewish women. We don't know the dates of those women or who they were, but it's interesting because we have the history of 4 very important Jewish women or mothers; our matriarchs Sarah, wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac, Rebekah, wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob, Rachel and Leah., sisters, both married to Jacob and mothers of the 12 tribes of Israel. However, I don't think the scientists meant these women. Leach and Rachel were sisters and would have had the same MTdna. In fact, Sarah was related to Abraham.
What was the Ydna of Canaanites? Nobody can know. The same people of yesterday are not alive in order to test. There are no mummies of Canaanites. All that can be done is test people who think they may have some Canaanite heritage and see what it produces of what we do know today.
Only the Jewish people have survived the 3,000 years of being part of the 12 Tribes of Israel, created by religion. Other people were only given names such as "Amorite" because that was the name of their leader or king. That's all that held them together, whereas Jews were followers of a monotheistic religion, in fact the only one in existence till Jesus came along. Their leader was secondary, their religion being first. It took 600 years after his appearance before Islam was created by Mohammed from which Palestinians find identification. For the 400 years prior to WWI the Ottoman Empire held title to Palestine, and they were Muslims.
Therefore, when a Palestinian exclaims that this land of Israel belongs to them and they were there first, it's not quite true. We may all have the same segment of chromosome, whether we be Jew or Muslim from the Canaanites, or we may not have any part of it. In fact, it's more possible that Jews have more cM's being it was the Jewish people who entered the land of the Canaanites. The admixture would be of these two, not humans farther away. There weren't that many Canaanites left alive in the first place.
Resource: Tanach (the Torah/Prophets/Writings) Stone Edition Genesis 9:18-10:26
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
DNA & Genealogy by Colleen Fitzpatrick & Andrew Yeiser
http://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2010/01/jewish-genes-what-haplogroup-could-they.html What Haplogroup We Be?
http://www.familytreedna.com/pdf-docs/Interpreting-Genetic-Genealogy-Results_web_optimized.pdf
http://www.torah.org/features/wperspective/binah.html
http://history-world.org/canaanite_culture_and_religion.htm
http://www.epsociety.org/library/articles.asp?pid=63
The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes
Abraham's Children, race, identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People by Jon Entine
Remember Noah and his Ark landing on Mt. Ararat? He saved his family in the gigantic flood and landed on a new piece of land. One of Noah's sons was Ham.. He also had Shem and Japheth. All three were born after the flood.. Ham treated his father terribly. Because of this, Ham's descendants, the Canaanites, were cursed and condemned to servitude. (Gen. 9:20) From these three sons came the first seventy from which humanity was derived after the flood had wiped out everyone but Noah's group. The story was also found in the Babylonian Gilgamesh epic. It is in the Torah in Genesis.
What happened was that Noah debased himself and planted a vineyard after they left the ark. He drank the wine and became drunk. In this drunken state he took off his clothes inside his tent in order to sleep but must not have covered himself. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside, "Dad's naked! Come see! Ha, Ha!" Brothers Shem and Japheth reacted differently to this news. They took a garment and laid it on both their shoulders, as they were little and it was heavy and large, walked into the tent backwards so they couldn't look at their father, and covered Noah but didn't look at him.
Noah woke up, most likely with a hangover and realized what his small son had done to him. It must have been Canaan who was always in trouble for him to immediately realize that it took two children to cover him with this big cloak because one had caused them to do so. He said, Cursed is Canaan; a slave of slaves shall he be to his brothers. Blessed is HaShem (G-d, which here means the Name); and let Canaan be a slave to them. May G-d extend Japheth, but he will dwell in the tents of Shem; may Canaan be a slave to them."
Ham was in turn the father of Cush, from which Nubia and Ethiopia came from; Put, from which Libya and Morocco came from; Mizraim, from which Egypt came from; and Canaan,who was the youngest, from which Syria and Eretz Israel (later called Palestine after 135 CE) came from. Canaan was cursed before he was even born when it was his father who had done wrong. Was that prophesying what would happen with the DNA? He could have been thinking, This son Ham of mine is a little devil. I imagine that at least one of his children is going to grow up to be a trouble-maker just like he is."
"Canaan's sons were Zidon and Heth. and they propagated into the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Gingashite, the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite, the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterwards, the families of the Canaanites branched out. The Canaanite boundary went from Zidon going toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; going toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha. These are the descendants of Ham, by their families, by their languages, in their lands, in their nations. "
It was the land of Canaan that G-d told Moses to take the children of Israel for their home. The Israelites had to fight their way in as they were not greeted with a welcome. The 12 spies that Moses sent out thought they were too big to fight against, but Joshua thought they could handle the situation. Scientists of today think they were a mixture of Horites, Hittites and Hebrews, dating back to the Hyksos period of the 17th Century BCE. The Canaanites were almost entirely obliterated or assimilated by the Israelites who had arrived in the 13th Century. There were Philistines along the coast in the 12th Century, and the Arameans in the north in the 11th Century. The remnants of people were absorbed into the community and ruled under King David and Solomon. Much later we see the name, Canaanites preserved only among the Sidonians and Phoenicians.
The land had been cultured for the past 500 years before the Israelites had arrived. They were growing huge grapes and other agricultural products. They believed in many gods called Baalim (lords) and Baalot (ladies). One was a Baal. This was something Moses was getting away from as that's what was going on in Ur when Abraham entered Canaan.long ago and of course Egypt was also a land of multiple gods of all descriptions. "The Canaanites were "disobedient" (Heb. 11:31) which is from the Christian New Testament, a term indicating a moral awareness of wrongdoing but a refusal to turn from it."
The land of Canaan was the name for Syria in the 15th to 13th centuries BCE, usually applied to the coast of Eretz Israel. Before the Israelite conquest, the land was divided into small city-states like Greece. The Israelites named the land "Eretz Israel" and the northern part which today is Syria, "Aram." Arabs traversing the land on camels when Jews made aliyah from Russia in the late 1800's CE called themselves Syrians.
Eretz Israel was attacked many times. In 722 BCE the Assyrians attacked and carted off people from 10 of the 12 tribes of Israel, who then were lost to Judah and Levi tribes. Later the Babylonians did the same thing. Sometimes people were brought into the land and replaced by the attackers which is what happened with the Samaritans. Originally they were of the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh but also included a mixture of non-Israelite colonists. Only the Jews remained as a people who were the remnants of the 12 tribes of Israel. On the 40 year march, Moses had told his people that they should not reject an Edomite, because he is your brother, and you should not reject an Egyptian, for you were a traveler in their land. Children who are born to them in the 3rd generation may enter the congregation of HaShem (G-d). Deuteronomy 33: 7-24:4.
Are the Palestinians today the actual Canaanite people? Hardly! However, some of those who were assimilated have planted themselves in the genes of Jews and non-Jews who lived there and are with us today in our chromosomes, no doubt. We all carry 23 pairs of chromosomes; one of a pair from our mother (mt dna) and one from our father (Ydna).
A few years ago I had a DNA test through a company called "23&Me." I matched genes with another lady tested there and we found we shared 67cM found on 6 of our chromosomes which were # 1,6,8,9, and 2 spots on #10, and 12. A cM (centi Morgan) is a measurement of dna on a chromosome and is a very short segment. This means we are related but that relation goes back quite far, farther than the knowledge I have on my family tree. We did share a heritage of being Eastern European Jewish women. The least I share with someone so far is 6cM on #7 chromosome. I had about 1,000 hits of sharing these wee amounts with others that must connect us so far back in history.
Bryan Sykes wrote the book "the Seven Daughters of Eve," which are Ursula, Xenia, Helena, Velda, Tara, Katrine and Jasmine. He showed that 98% of all people of Western Europe descended from 7 women who lived in Europe within the last 50,000 years. A few have been added to this list, such as the newer discovered "W" for Wilma, which my paternal grandmother happens to be. Women's DNA (MTdna) can go back very far. That's why they can only check for this in DNA testing on Egyptian mummies. Ydna of men can't go back as far, unfortunately at this time. The women 50,000 years ago or clan mothers descended from a common ancestor the scientists call "Mitochondrial Eve" who lived in Africa about 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
Jasmine was found to have originated in Syria, with the home about a mile from the Euphrates River when the Great Ice Age was at an end. Jasmine's descendants are not evenly distributed evenly throughout Europe which contains about 17%.. One branch follows the Mediterranean coast to Spain and Portugal and goes into Cornwall, Wales and west of Scotland. People did get scattered around..
As for Ydna originating in Canaan, the E and E3a, E3b haplogroup, very common with Jews originating in Africa 50,000 years ago, contains a number of groups in Africa and the Middle East. J, J2, J1 arose 10,00-15,000 years ago in the fertile crescent and includes Jews, Arabs, Armenians and Kurds with the highest in Iran and Iraq. The Cohen gene is from J1. The majority of Jewish men tested fall into J.
So far I find through another company where my brother was tested for both Ydna and MTdna, that his male line Y is finding matches with Arabians and Afghanis That's a pretty big surprise for a Jewish man today. They are not close matches like first cousins, but again, way back in history, we may have had a common ancestor because we're sharing the same line of Ydna, showing mutations of the distance of time.
Recently, scientists said that all Jewish women descended from 4 original Jewish women. We don't know the dates of those women or who they were, but it's interesting because we have the history of 4 very important Jewish women or mothers; our matriarchs Sarah, wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac, Rebekah, wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob, Rachel and Leah., sisters, both married to Jacob and mothers of the 12 tribes of Israel. However, I don't think the scientists meant these women. Leach and Rachel were sisters and would have had the same MTdna. In fact, Sarah was related to Abraham.
What was the Ydna of Canaanites? Nobody can know. The same people of yesterday are not alive in order to test. There are no mummies of Canaanites. All that can be done is test people who think they may have some Canaanite heritage and see what it produces of what we do know today.
Only the Jewish people have survived the 3,000 years of being part of the 12 Tribes of Israel, created by religion. Other people were only given names such as "Amorite" because that was the name of their leader or king. That's all that held them together, whereas Jews were followers of a monotheistic religion, in fact the only one in existence till Jesus came along. Their leader was secondary, their religion being first. It took 600 years after his appearance before Islam was created by Mohammed from which Palestinians find identification. For the 400 years prior to WWI the Ottoman Empire held title to Palestine, and they were Muslims.
Therefore, when a Palestinian exclaims that this land of Israel belongs to them and they were there first, it's not quite true. We may all have the same segment of chromosome, whether we be Jew or Muslim from the Canaanites, or we may not have any part of it. In fact, it's more possible that Jews have more cM's being it was the Jewish people who entered the land of the Canaanites. The admixture would be of these two, not humans farther away. There weren't that many Canaanites left alive in the first place.
Resource: Tanach (the Torah/Prophets/Writings) Stone Edition Genesis 9:18-10:26
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
DNA & Genealogy by Colleen Fitzpatrick & Andrew Yeiser
http://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2010/01/jewish-genes-what-haplogroup-could-they.html What Haplogroup We Be?
http://www.familytreedna.com/pdf-docs/Interpreting-Genetic-Genealogy-Results_web_optimized.pdf
http://www.torah.org/features/wperspective/binah.html
http://history-world.org/canaanite_culture_and_religion.htm
http://www.epsociety.org/library/articles.asp?pid=63
The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes
Abraham's Children, race, identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People by Jon Entine
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