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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.
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.
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.