Biblical Archaeology Review 43:4, July/August 2017

Sidon

Canaan’s Firstborn

By Claude Doumet-Serhal

The city of Sidon on the coast of modern Lebanon is mentioned 38 times in the Hebrew Bible. Recent excavations have exposed part of the ancient Canaanite—and later Phoenician—city, including a massive temple and depictions of deities worshiped at Sidon.

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