Canaanites, Chronologies, and Connections: The Relationship of Middle Bronze Age IIA Canaan to Middle Kingdom Egypt

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

SUSAN L. COHEN, Canaanites, Chronologies, and Connections: The Relationship of Middle Bronze Age IIA Canaan to Middle Kingdom Egypt (HSM, Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant 3; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2002). Pp. viii + 168. N.P.

Addressing the emergence of Canaanite cities as the topic this revised dissertation, Cohen chronologically reshuffles the textual and artifactual evidence and concludes that urbanism arrived gradually and later than the renascence of Egypt's Middle Kingdom. This material-cultural gap helps explain more than just the curious lack of Egyptian ...

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