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Warren’s Shaft, part of a Canaanite water system discovered by 19th-century archaeologists and open to visitors, might be the very tunnel infiltrated by David’s army.
Miles sets the situation into historical context: "What made the fortune, so to speak, of the God of Israel," he observes, "was that he combined two functions previously separate: on the one hand, the function of the Mesopotamian personal God, a kind of guardian angel whose responsibilities were concentrated on one man or woman but whose powers were also limited; on the other, the function of the Canaanite/Mesopotamian high God, El, whose attention to any individual man or woman was slight or unpredictable but whose powers were universal.
Discarding the biblical narrative, minimalists reinterpret the flight from Egypt into Israel as a variety of indigenous peasant revolt in which fed-up Canaanite farmers wrested their land from feudal lords.
At the beginning of the second millennium b.c. , Jerusalem was a Canaanite mountain stronghold on a secondary trade route, far less important than biblical cities such as Hazor, Megiddo, Beth Shean, and Shechem.