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The Akkadian term Amurru refers during the…
The Akkadian term Amurru refers during the second millennium BCE not only to the ethnic Amorites but also to a language and to a geographic and political unit in Syria and Palestine.
The region called Amurru is northern Palestine, with its center at Hazor, in the Jordan Valley north of the Sea of Galilee, and the neighboring Syrian Desert.
The towns of southern Palestine seem to have been established in this age.
The town dwellers, identified as the original Semitic population, can, for the sake of convenience, be called Canaanites, although the term is not attested before the middle of the second millennium BCE.
The pastoral Amorite's inheritors are the Canaanites, who reintroduce town life sharing a culture found the whole length of the Mediterranean littoral.
Canaanite religion emerges with El as supreme god and Baal, god of rain, vegetation, and fertility sharing the central position.
Their language is an archaic form of Hebrew, standing in much the same relationship to the Hebrew of the Old Testament as does the language of Chaucer to modern English.
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