Abstract:There is a widespread idea that the people we call 'Phoenician' called themselves 'Canaanite'. This article argues that the only positive evidence for this hypothesis, a single line in the standard editions of Augustine's unfinished commentary on Paul's letter to the Romans, where he claims that 'if you ask our local peasants what they are, they answer 'Canaanite'', is prima facie highly unreliable as historical evidence, and on closer inspection in fact is almost certainly an editorial error: our examination … Show more
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