Canaan
Image: The Map of Canaan According to the Bible https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaan#/media/File:Map_Land_of_Israel.jpg After finish my second book, The Enchanting Encounter with the East, I needed to take a break, approximately from mid-May to the end of June. That was the finish of the school year, so I had plenty of time on my hands. My idea was to pick up a momentous episode from the history of early Israel. This is the topic of my fourth book. I found so much data that it would take months, if not years, to process it. However, I became aware of what this future volume would be about. I support the idea that early Israel was part and parcel of Canaan, a narrow land bridge stretched between Western Asia and Egypt. Surrounded by stony deserts, it belonged to the occidental leg of the Fertile Crescent. Splashed by the great wine-dark sea, this land occupied a chunk of the eastern Mediterranean. This spatial corridor, craved by quite a few grea...