>>717180125 No, there’s no record of enslavement.
There are records of Canaanite guest workers, I guess would be the best description. Egypt was the main power around the Mediterranean. The Phoenicians were more traders and decentralized.
The Canaanites developed the first phonetic alphabet, using the simplified version of hieroglyphics. So that’s cool.
In the case of the Exodus, the scale of the events and the impact of the characters are simply too huge to not leave a trace (whether textual or archeological). So the fact they didn't is certainly a strong evidence for the accounts being legendary, meaning they might have a seed of historical truth in them (maybe a memory of Egyptian rule over Canaan during the Bronze Age or maybe a memory of a small group of a few thousands who moved from Egypt like the Biblical scholar Richard Elliott Friedman suggests) but that's it.
But it’s more like they’d come to Egypt, work, earn money, maybe stay for a while, then head home to buy some land and sheep. There were probably some who settled in, got married, had kids, and stayed for a few generations.
There’s a lot of conjecture about the various Canaanite tribes and their beliefs in different gods. It can be very interesting. The Jews/Hebrews/Israelites were a Canaanite tribe. That’s why they returned there
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