The background of Canaanite and the emergence of the Jewish state

The beginning and the end of Israel (2)
“Canaan” or today Palestine is a land of ancient culture dating back to twelve thousand years before Christ comes. The oldest remains of the village life in it belong to five thousand years BC. The land of Canaan was captured by the state of the pharaoh third Tutmsis (1490-1436), founder of the Egyptian empire, in 1469 BC.
From the fifteenth century BC, Canaan’s name has been registered in Egyptian inscriptions and in the Pentateuch, it has the same name; a land has been described as "milk and honey are flowing in it." The term Canaan is Sami and means " red wool merchants ", because this area was the center of dyeing commerce and industry and its textiles that are mentioned in red in the Pentateuch, were one of the most famous commercial goods of its time. Greeks called Canaanites as Phoenicians which has the same meaning.
Canaanites from the distant past had built a thriving culture on this land. They were merchant people and since the third millennium BC. Beblas and Tyre and Sidon were their major cities and main commercial ports of the Mediterranean. They are the world's most ancient mariners and had colonies on the shores of Spain, Malta, North Africa, and Sicily. At the beginning of the first millennium BC, Canaanites created their alphabet (the Phoenician). This "mother" writing is Hebrew script.
With the arrival of the Israelite and Palestine’s tribes, Canaanites lost southern parts of their land, but still attended on the sidelines of the sea, especially in the important commercial ports of Tyre and Saida (Sidon), and created significant city - states. At the time of David and Solomon, Canaanite king of Tyre named Hiram and had a friendly relationship with them. As we shall see, Hiram in Jewish mythology, as well as in the mythology of Freemasonry, has a remarkable position.
According to Raphael Patay, during the reign of Solomon, the Canaanite tribes who were inhabitants of Israel gradually mixed with the Hebrew tribes. During the Roman domination, Canaanite word referred to a group of Jews who were strongly anti-Roman. The first ports of North Africa were founded by the Canaanites, and to the second century AD, remained Punic people of this area called themselves as Canaanite. At Persepolis’ motifs, Canaanites images are carved that among other tribes took their gifts to Darius.
In 1150 BC, Egypt’s domination over the land of Canaan ended, and around the year 1029, the political structure of the Israelite tribes by Saul, of the tribe of Benjamin, turned to government. He was the first king of the tribes of Israel and reigned for 24 years (until 1004). Then, David of the tribe of Judah and the youngest son of Yaseh came to the throne. At the beginning of Saul's reign, the number of twelve tribes of Israel has been reported as 300 thousand people and the population of tribe of Judah has been reported as 30 thousand people.
The only new historiography source of David is the Old Testament. According to theses narrations David’s era is contemporary with the authority of the twenty-first dynasty of pharaohs of Egypt (1075-664Pysh BC), especially Pesusens the first (1044-994).
Jews do not know David and Solomon as the Prophet; they are counting them as their first kings and symbol of power and glory. A man named Nathan the prophet was in their court and was their middleman with the Lord. However, we do not know David and Solomon that are mentioned in the Old Testament the same as David and Solomon the Prophets (Peace be upon him) as we know them in the Holy Quran and Islamic traditions. Modern Jewish myths also are not definitely the same as the picture of David and Solomon the Prophet that prevailed including among Arabs. About assignment of David and Solomon to Judah’s descent, there is no reason except the Old Testament’s claim and this is a written set that has been repeatedly reviewed and restructured over the continual periods, including the Jewish aristocracy’s exile to Babylonia. Also, except the claim of the Old Testament, we have no reason to know David royal family of Jews from descended of David the prophet. In the future, we will learn in detail about the long process of development of the Old Testament’s edit and the influence of the aristocracy and Jewish priests in rewriting it in different ages and times. So, when in this research we speak of David and Solomon we mean these tow Jewish kings as they are portrayed in Jewish traditions.
According to Jewish mythology, David at the war with the Palestinians came in attention of Saul; he went to his court and became his groom. Alarmed David's bravery and authority and decided to kill him, but he failed; David took refuge to Akheish, king of the Palestinians and a bitter enemy of Israel. Finally, the tribes of the Israelites were defeated by the Philistines in a battle, and Saul was killed. David was established at Hebron and was selected as the king by tribe of Judah. He was King of the Jewish for seven and a half years. After fighting hard with the other tribes of Israel and defeating the sons of Saul, he finally conquered Jerusalem and became "the king of Israel and Jews". David became Jewish King at 30 years old and reigned for 40 years, seven years and half over the tribe of Judah and 33 years over all Israel. Time of David's death is known around 965 BC. Thus, during David’s era, a united kingdom from twelve tribes of Israel was established under the domination of the tribe of Judah.
As we have seen, David and the Jewish tribe’s domination over the other tribes of the Israelites was fulfilled through the betrayal to Bani Israel and refuging to the enemies of his people, the Palestinians immigrants. In fact, the Palestinians were the ones who broke the military power of Israel and murdered Saul to pave the way for the ascent of David; he then subdued the Israelites through bloody battles. In the era of David and around his court, an aristocratic oligarchy was formed and this prompted dissatisfaction of Israel to rebel against David. The leadership of this rebellion was on Absalom, son of David, and the 'hearts of the men of Israel" were with him. Finally, in a bloody battle, the rebels were defeated and a difficult massacre took place. The number of those who were murdered at the hands of the servants of David has been reported as twenty thousand people. Absalom was killed in the battle as well, and "the lives of David and his sons and daughters and wives and concubines" were saved. this matter did not break David’s link with the tribe of Judah and other tribes of the children of Israel still recognized David's reign as the Jewish state:
All the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king of Judah, Why ... the men of Judah stole you?... men of Judah responded to the men of Israel: because the king is our relative, so why do you envy it? … Men of Israel said in answer: ... our right in having David is more than you, so why did you humiliate us?
Thus from the time of David, in narrations, the concepts of "Israel" and "Jewish" separate from each other and refers into two distinct groups. We should know the government of David and the tribe of Judah over children of Israel as the source of a long process that finally, by removing the other tribes of the Israelites led to the formation of "the Jewish people".
"The myth of David" is the basis that thought and political structure of Judaism rest on it. The concept of "divine election" and "eternal reign of the family of David" has created an axis that over many centuries, Jews have continued their political unity, in spite of geographical distribution, and got their motivation and political aspirations from it. "Family of David" is a completely ethnic myth and is Jewish symbol of power and glory; and even in this sense, it does not have link with other tribes of the children of Israel.
The drafters of the Old Testament had a revealed and surprising witting in spreading the culture based on sex and de-moral sanctity of the prophets, and sustain the foundation that had settled with the story of Abraham’s inappropriate attitude in Egypt, the story of Lot and his daughters, Judah’s intercourse with his bride and other similar stories. The origin of the myth of "the family of David" goes back to "Book of Ruth”.
Book of Ruth begins with the story of a man from the tribe of Judah. He goes to Moab during a famine, where he marries a woman named Ruth, who does not belong to Israel. Jewish man dies and Naomi, his mother, and Ruth, his widow, stay only in Moab for years. Finally, these two go to the land of the Jews, and Ruth in the field of one of the leaders of the tribe of Judah, named Boaz begins to work. These two women are poor. Ruth by the guidance of Naomi goes to the dormitory of Boaz overnight, and sleeps with him, and she takes six measures of barley from him as his gift for Naomi in the morning. This is the begging of Boaz’s fascination and his link with Ruth. In such way the beautiful Ruth and Naomi get to wealth and glory. Boaz and Ruth are ancestors of David. Thus, a family tree that began with adultery of Judah and his bride, continues and founded a family that are considered as "the chosen of the Lord" and legitimate leaders of all the children of Israel.
In Jewish mysticism (Kabbalah), David’s personality is manifested in the divine character of the "Shekhinah" that the monarchy of the world is in his hands. David's family’s earth monarchy will never be interrupted and always persists in his blood; and finally from this descent the "locusts" (King) or (Christ) will emerge and will establish the rule of the Jews, and at their head, the family of David, over the world. Zionism, as a new ideology is based on the principle of global "elite" and "mission" of the "Jewish people" has got his theme from the myth of the family of David. In other words, it is the adaptation of the same myth with the new world and culture.
The image that "Old Testament" gives us of David's character is highly effective in development of individual and social psychology and culture of "Jewish people. In this narrative, David is an authoritarian, cruel king who is drawn into corruption of his magnificent court.
He was so cruel and vengeful that during his reign, delivered seven innocent Saul’s sons who used to live in his shelter to be killed due to avenge of the past by the family of Saul's enemies, from alienated people of Israel, and it is not only that. David had dozens of women in his harem and even has seized Saul’s spouses as well, although his first wife is the daughter of Saul. These women were sentenced to gradual death without David casts any comments or looks at them. However, he is so capricious that sleeps with Bat Sheba, the beautiful wife of Avrya and then, for permanently seizing this woman, kills his brave and loyal commander. Bat-Sheba, mother of Solomon is David's successor.
The sons of David are also wicked and evil, as their father. One is so corrupted that sleeps with his sister. Sister takes work to scandal only because it was done without her and her Father’s satisfaction, and the other son "in the eyes of all Israel" sleeps with spouses of his father. Solomon also has "seven hundred women and three hundred concubines Lady," which one is the daughter of the Pharaoh of Egypt. The impact of these women on him is in such way that in aging, they return his heart from God and provoke Solomon to follow "strange gods". For this reason, Solomon is cursed by God, and his country is disintegrated after his death. The Old Testament is full of such moral attitudes and behavior patterns.
At the end of the second millennium BC, new immigrants came to the land of Canaan that in the documents of Ramses III, Pharaoh of Egypt (1198-1166), is called "people of the sea". They are sailor inhabitants of the islands of the Aegean Sea, between Turkey and Greece. These people, after hard battles with the Canaanites and the Hebrews, finally established their dominance on the part of the coast of the land of Canaan.
The nation is called "Palestinian" and the current name of Canaan land is a relic of them. Referring the name to the land of Canaan does not mean that the current Palestinian inhabitants are descended from these people. During the late ages, great ethnic migration and mixing have occurred. In recent centuries, the Arab-Semitic elements of race and culture predominates the people of Palestine. The story of Samson and Delilah and also David and Goliath’s battles, the Palestinian commander, belong to this period. David finally managed to rid the land of Israel from the domination of the Aegean immigrants. From this time, the Aegean immigrants had only a small territory in margin in sea. The port of Gaza was the main focus of Palestinians.
According to Jewish legends, after David, his son Solomon became king, and according to these myths at the time of Solomon (965-928), the Jewish state and Israel reached the pinnacle of glory; turned into a big government in Egypt and Mesopotamia and then became degenerated. At the time of Solomon, the aristocracy relationship of Jewish tribe with their citizens is discriminatory and hegemonic.
With the death of Solomon and the beginning of the reign of his son, Rehoboam, the crisis that began in the second half of the reign of Solomon was ignited. In the year 928, ten tribes settled in the northern lands of Israel, led by the tribe of Ephraim (the tribe of Ephraim son of Joseph), rebelled over the Jewish aristocracy and staged their independent state on their land. The leadership rebellion was led by Jeroboam of the tribe of Ephraim.
The beginning of the revolt dates back to Solomon; when a group of Israelites rise against the construction of the "temple" and the great palace of Solomon in Jerusalem. Construction of "temple" and "House" are in fact the above pagan revolt of "Solomon" against the Mousavi teachings that he was accused by God.
Architect of altar and places of worship in the "Temple of Solomon" is a man named Hiram Abyf that is from his Phoenician father and his mother is of the children of Israel. Solomon he asks for help from his friend Hiram, king of Tyre, to build a "temple", and he sends "Hiram Abyf" to Jerusalem.
Hiram was a wealthy King and during his era, Tyre was known as the colonial empire of the Mediterranean Sea and great trade power of regional. The Phoenician state of Tyre at this time and in subsequent centuries was the main focus of the worship of "Baal" and promoted the faith in the region. "Baal" is an ancient, Semitic concept for "God" that idol of "Golden Calf” was one of its symbols. Phoenician wealth and their expanded business ties with across the Mediterranean and its coast in the West and with the Arabian Peninsula, Syria, Mesopotamia and Persia in the East, of course was an important factor in the spread of ritual of "Baal-worship". At this time, Hiram turned Tyre into a beautiful city and the massive temples and raised huge statues and temples of "Baal", and this issue influenced on Solomon.
The description of the "Temple of Solomon", represents it as a magnificent temple full of golden decorating that in its sanctuary, two gold massive "Karroubi" are installed. This "Karroubi" is nothing but the Winged "Golden Calf" (like winged animals’ designs which are found in Persepolis) that are read with names like "Malcolm" and "Malkart" and its samples were obtained in excavations. This is the same code of "the worship of the Golden Calf," which in Islamic tradition is called as the "golden calf".
In the thirteenth century, with the advent of Jewish mysticism (Kabbalah) in Christian Spain, the concept of "Baal" is used again as the holy word, and this time with the meaning of "master of mystery names" that is referred to teachers and masters of Jewish mysticism. In the eighteenth century, "Hiram myth" also took place in the rituals of Freemasonry Foundation; the establishment of "Temple of Solomon" was considered as the beginning of the Sufi mystical and Hiram is considered as its first "architect". This phenomenon is not accidental and it should exactly be evaluated as the meaning of restorative worship of "Baal".