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The Phoenicians and Chanaanites were the same people, but were called Chanaanites, by the Hebrews, and Phoenicians, by the Greeks. The woman called a "Syro-Phoenician", (Mark 7:26) since she came from the part of Phoenicia that was part of Syria. "Have mercy on me" shows that the woman full bore the affliction of her daughter.
The Old Testament does not use the term Phoenicians (an exonym given by the Greeks). Phoenician royalty are, however, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. These verses in the Old Testament add to the scarce historical literature mentioning the ancient people of the Levantine coasts.
The Phoenician alphabet [b] is an abjad (consonantal alphabet) [2] used across the Mediterranean civilization of Phoenicia for most of the 1st millennium BC. It was one of the first alphabets, attested in Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions found across the Mediterranean region.
The Phoenician alphabetic script was easy to write on papyrus or parchment sheets, and the use of these materials explains why virtually no Phoenician writings – no history, no trading records – have come down to us. In their cities by the sea, the air and soil were damp, and papyrus and leather moldered and rotted away.
Edomite – an extinct Canaanite dialect of the Edomite people mentioned in the Bible and Egyptian texts. Hebrew – the only Canaanite language that is a living language, and the most successful example of a revived dead language. [7] Moabite – an extinct Canaanite dialect of the Moabite people mentioned in the Bible.
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While no extant inscription in the Phoenician alphabet is older than c. 1050 BC, [12] Proto-Canaanite is used for the early alphabets as used during the 13th and 12th centuries BC in Phoenicia. [13] However, the Phoenician , Hebrew , and other Canaanite dialects were largely indistinguishable before the 11th century BC, and the writing system ...
The Sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II was the first of this type of inscription found anywhere in the Levant (modern Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria). [1] [2]The Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions, also known as Northwest Semitic inscriptions, [3] are the primary extra-Biblical source for understanding of the societies and histories of the ancient Phoenicians, Hebrews and Arameans.