Origins: Where is Canaans Land? & who is Canaan?

Subject: Origins: Where is Canaans Land? & who is Canaan?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 04 Apr 04 - 10:54 PM

i'm talking about the Kate Ruby song, "To Canaans Land, I'm om my way etc", so where exactly is Canaans land, and who is/was Canaan?
something to do with the Bible?

Subject: RE: Origins: Where is Canaans Land? & who is Canaan?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Apr 04 - 11:03 PM

Hi, John - After traveling with Moses through the desert from Egypt for 40 years, the Hebrew people crossed the Jordan River into the Land of Canaan, the land flowing with milk and honey, the Promised Land.
In gospel songs and spirituals, Canaan means freedom, or heaven, or the promise of better things.
Yep, it's in the Bible.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Origins: Where is Canaans Land? & who is Canaan?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 04 Apr 04 - 11:07 PM

Thanks Joe, [I guess Canaan was the King/Ruler of the land at that time?]

Subject: RE: Origins: Where is Canaans Land? & who is Canaa
From: Alice
Date: 04 Apr 04 - 11:10 PM

John, Canaan was a biblical person and also the name of a place. The following is from www.dictionary.com.

Canaan

(1.) The fourth son of Ham (Gen. 10:6). His descendants were under a curse in
consequence of the transgression of his father (9:22-27). His eldest son,
Zidon, was the father of the Sidonians and Phoenicians. He had eleven sons, who
were the founders of as many tribes (10:15-18).
(2.) The country which derived
its name from the preceding. The name as first used by the Phoenicians denoted
only the maritime plain on which Sidon was built. But in the time of Moses and
Joshua it denoted the whole country to the west of the Jordan and the Dead Sea
(Deut. 11:30). In Josh. 5:12 the LXX. read, "land of the Phoenicians," instead
of "land of Canaan." The name signifies "the lowlands," as distinguished from
the land of Gilead on the east of Jordan, which was a mountainous district. The
extent and boundaries of Canaan are fully set forth in different parts of
Scripture (Gen. 10:19; 17:8; Num. 13:29; 34:8). (See CANAANITES ¯T0000705,
PALESTINE.)

Subject: RE: Origins: Where is Canaans Land? & who is Canaan?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 04 Apr 04 - 11:14 PM

i just put history of canann into google and food an intresting site here = a ref www.mideastweb.org

Subject: RE: Origins: Where is Canaans Land? & who is Canaan?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 04 Apr 04 - 11:15 PM

thanks alice.