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It is also not true that all the people of Phoenicia called themselves Cannaites and that noone apart the Greeks called them Phoenicians.
We have the Phoenicians own words such as those of Philo that they called themselves Phoenicians and we know from him as well as Herodotus and others exactly which group of people they covered. Phoenicians was a tribal name used to describe the descendents of Phoenix and the land they occupied.
There is also fixed moment in time where Canaaite culture shifted into a Phoenician. 1454 BC according to Jerome is the year in which Phoenix left Egypt and ruled in Tyre. The year in which he brought with him Phoenician script which was based on Proto-Sinaitic and the Canaanites started using it and were named Phoenicians after him.
You will find all of these historical facts confirmed by the archaeology. A shift in material culture takes placed from the moment the Canaanites start using Phoenician script and are called Phoenicians after Phoenix.
I am not talking about a break in occupation. We are talking about a change of material culture which did occur in 1450 BC because of the adoption of Proto-Sinaitic script. Before 1454 BC the Phoenicians used Cuneiform script.
Remember it was Phoenix a Greek who brought a new script to Phoenicia, at the same time his brother Cadmus brought the same script to Greece. Change of script = change in material culture.
Proto-Sinaitic script does not appear outside of Sinai untill 1450 BC. Therefore there is a change of script = change in material culture brought about by Phoenix.
Phoenix invented Phoenician script and to it to Tyre in 1454 BC. Nobody disputes this because it is written down in the history books and has not been contradicted by anything else.
The Egyptians were ruled by the Greek Hyksos dynasty which is culturally Achaean for over half a century. The Egyption word Hyksos is from the same root as Ekwesh and referes to the Achaean Greek Sea People who came to Egypt at the time that Zeus conquered Kronos and drove them into Asia in 1675 BC which corresponds archeologically to a time when the Minoan palace civilisation was destroyed and rebuilt.
Egyptians themselves called them E-QA-TA and said the came to Egypt 50 years before the Thera Eruption. Even the Phoenician Kronos name Elys is the name given in the bible for the eponymous ancestor of the Greeks, Elysa the son of Javan.
They had their own ideograms that were completely different to those of the Egyptians. They had to be otherwise the letters corresponding to the representations would have all been pronounced wrongly corresponding to Egyptian names rather than Phoenician.
The advent of Proto-Sinaitic ie 1800-1400 BC. and then the adoption of Phoenician script, 1430 BC is the date which Jerome says that Cadmus founded Thebes and brought Cadmean script to Greece and 1450 is when he says Phoenix founded Phoenicia therefore this is when we can start talking about Phoenicians proper.
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