Editing Canaan (section)

== Legacy ==
"Canaan" is used as a synonym of the [[Promised Land]]; for instance, it is used in this sense in the hymn "Canaan's Happy Shore", with the [[Line (poetry)|line]]s: "Oh, brothers, will you meet me, (3x)/On Canaan's happy shore," a hymn set to the tune later used in ''[[The Battle Hymn of the Republic]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stauffer |first1=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bIRQpD3HNSAC&pg=PA23 |title=The Battle Hymn of the Republic: A Biography of the Song That Marches On |last2=Soskis |first2=Benjamin |date=2013 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199339587 |access-date=2024-02-07 |archive-date=2024-04-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240429062445/https://books.google.com/books?id=bIRQpD3HNSAC&pg=PA23#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>

In the 1930s and 1940s, some [[Revisionist Zionism|Revisionist Zionist]] intellectuals in [[Mandatory Palestine]] founded the ideology of [[Canaanism]], which sought to create a unique Hebrew identity, rooted in ancient Canaanite culture, rather than a Jewish one.<ref name="Kuzar 12">Kuzar 12</ref>

Israeli Prime Minister [[David Ben-Gurion]] observed the contradictions between the secular and biblical records of Jewish indigeneity to Canaan, which was nonetheless affirmed in the [[Israeli Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]]. Whilst he used secular arguments to justify Jewish indigeneity, he argued that the biblical narrative of Abraham migrating to Canaan was a "reunion with indigenous Hebrews who shared his theological belief". He also argued that not all Hebrews joined [[Jacob]]'s family when they migrated to Egypt and later, birthed the generation of the Hebrews that endured the [[The Exodus|Exodus]].<ref name="Wazana">{{Cite web |last=Wazana |first=Nili |date=April 15, 2018 |title=Israel's Declaration of Independence and the Biblical Right to the Land |url=https://www.thetorah.com/article/israels-declaration-of-independence-and-the-biblical-right-to-the-land |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240207091222/https://www.thetorah.com/article/israels-declaration-of-independence-and-the-biblical-right-to-the-land |archive-date=February 7, 2024 |website=TheTorah.com}}</ref> Some professors find this view tenable, based on {{Bibleverse|1 Chronicles|7:20-24}}, which preserved heterodox traditions of Jewish indigeneity.<ref name="Frankel"/><ref name="Wazana"/>