The Fate of the Canaanites and the Despoliation of the Egyptians

Abstract

This chapter examines debates concerning the fate of the Canaanites and the despoliation of the Egyptians according to the literature of the Second Temple period and rabbinic literature. Analysis of the Jewish traditions shows that the debate about the Canaanites and that about the despoliation of the Egyptians are closely intertwined, both as far as the sources of these traditions are concerned and the later texts that associate them. Many assertions in rabbinic literature transform earlier traditions, which emerged as early as the Second Temple period, and similar traditions are attested in early Christian literature. The debates about the fate of the Canaanites and the despoliation of the Egyptians therefore represent remarkable cases of both continuity and transformation of apologetical exegetical traditions and motifs that operated for several centuries in different historical contexts.

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