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Canaan, according to the ''Book of Genesis'' in the Hebrew Bible, was a son of Ham and grandson of Noah, and was the father of the Canaanites. He was the recipient of the so-called Curse of Ham. == Descendants of Canaan== According to the Table of Nations in Genesis 10 (verses 15-19), Canaan was the ancestor of the tribes who originally occupied the ancient Land of Canaan: all the territory from Sidon or Hamath in the north to Gaza in the southwest and Lasha in the southeast. This territory is roughly the areas of modern day Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, western Jordan, and western Syria. Canaan's firstborn son was Sidon, who shares his name with the Phoenician city of Sidon in present-day Lebanon.〔María E. Aubet. "The Phoenicians and the West: politics, colonies and trade", (ISBN 0521795435, ISBN 978-0-521-79543-2), 2001, p. 66〕 His second son was Heth. Canaan's descendants, according to the Hebrew Bible, include: # Sidonians # Hittites, ''children of Heth'' # Jebusites # Amorites # Girgashites # Hivites # Arkites # Sinites # Arvadites # Zemarites # Hamathites According to traditional Ethiopian histories, Canaan's son Arwadi (lit. "the Arvadite") and his wife Entela crossed from Asia into Ethiopia in 2101 BC, and the Qemant tribe were said to be descended from their son, ''Anayer''. There is further an Ethiopian tradition that two other Canaanite tribes, viz. the Sinites and Zemarites, also entered Ethiopia at the time it was ruled by the Kingdom of Kush, and became the Shanqella and Weyto peoples, respectively.〔Yohannes Wolde Mariam, ''Yealem Tarik'', 1948 p. 105-6.〕 The Persian historian Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (c. 915) recounted a tradition that the wife of Canaan was named Arsal, a daughter of Batawil son of Tiras, and that she bore him the "Blacks, Nubians, Fezzan, Zanj, Zaghawah, and all the peoples of the Sudan."〔(Tabari's ''Prophets and Patriarchs'' )〕 The German historian Johannes Aventinus (fl. c. 1525) recorded a legend that Canaan's sons ''the "Arkite"'' and ''the "Hamathite"'' first settled in the area of Greece, and gave their names to the regions of Arcadia and Emathia. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Canaan (son of Ham)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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