Canaanites

Japanese: カナン人 - かなんじん
Canaanites

…It has a Mediterranean climate, with high temperatures and little rainfall in the dry season, mainly in summer, but relatively wet in winter for parts of Western Asia. The inhabitants had become highly mixed by the end of the ancient period, and the oldest known inhabitants were the Canaanites, a Northwest Semitic people, but it is unclear when they arrived in the area. The etymology of the word Canaanite in the Old Testament is thought to be Kinaḫḫu, which appears in the Amarna Tablets of the 14th century BC, and means "crimson" or "copper-red," and is said to be derived from the color of a dye unique to the region or the skin color of the inhabitants. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "Canaanites" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…地中海式気候を示し,夏を中心とする乾季には高温寡雨であるが,冬季には西アジアの一部としては比較的湿潤である。 住民は古代末までにきわめて混交した状態になり,知られる最古の住民は,北西セム語族のカナン人であるが,この地に到来した時期は不明である。旧約聖書中のカナン人の語源は,前14世紀の〈アマルナ文書〉などにみえるキナフKinaḫḫuであると考えられ,これは〈深紅色〉または〈赤銅色〉を意味し,この地方特産の染料の色,もしくは住民の肌の色に由来するとされる。…

※「カナン人」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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