" A man is but a mold of his country's landscpe "  These were the words of Tchernichovski .

The land known as Canaan was situated in the territory of the southern Levant , which today encompasses , the West Bank and Gaza, , and the southern portions of and . Throughout time, many names have been given to this area including Palestine , Eretz-Israel, Bilad es-Shem, the Holy Land and Djahy. The earliest known name for this area was " Canaan ."

The inhabitants of Canaan were never ethnically or politically unified as a single nation. They did, however, share sufficient similarities in language and culture to be described together as "Canaanites."

refers to both a people within Canaan and later to the political entity formed by those people. To the authors of the Bible, Canaan is the land which the tribes of conquered after an Exodus from and the Canaanites are the people they disposed from this land. The Old Testament of the Bible (also known as Tanak) is principally concerned with the religious history of in Canaan .