ABSTRACT
Then, in the midst of this celebration, the student raised his hand and asked simply, ‘What about the Canaanites?’ Suddenly all the uncomfortable feelings I had been repressing about the Bible for years flooded me. Yes, what about the Canaanites? and the Amorites, Moabites, Hittites? … I now began to see some complicity, for over and over the Bible tells the story of a people who inherit at someone else’s expense. (Schwartz 1997: ix–x)
