320 The Fundamentals. available material may result in the production of similar pot• tery in two very different civilizations arising one thousand years or more apart. This civilization of pots, as a deciding criterion, is not quite adequate, and is safe as a criterion at all only when carefully compared with the testimony of Ioca· tion, intertribal relations, governmental domination, and liter• ary attainments. These are the things, in addition to the pots, which help to determine-indeed, which do determine-how much of a b q r u e e a s k t, i a n n c d ul h tu o r w e m is u r c e h qu is ire s d ho b w y n th b e y B e ib x l c e av a a c t c i o o u n n s. t of S t in h c e e Co th n e Israelites occupied the cities and towns and vineyards and olive orchards of the Canaanites, and their "houses full of all good things"< 2 0 >, had the same materials and in the main the same purposes for pottery and would adopt methods of c n o a o a k n i " n < g 3 0>, su a i n te d d w to ere th o e f c t o h u e nt s r a y m , e sp r o ac k e e a t s he ma "l n a y ng o u f ag th e e o p f eo C p a le of Canaan, intermarried, though against their law < 01 > , with the people of the land, and were continually chided for lapses i i n te t s o < 32 the idolatry and superstitious practices of the Canaan > , and, in short, were greatly different from them only in religion, it is evident that the only marked, immediate change to be expected at the Conquest is a change in religion, and that any other break in culture occasioned by the devastation of war will be only a break in continuance of the same kind o ti f on c . ult E ur x e a , ct e l v y id s e u n c c h e c o h f an d g e e m i o n li r ti e o l n ig , io sp n o a li n a d tio in n t , e a rr n u d pt r i e o c n on in str c u u c l ture at the Conquest period excavations show. RELIGION AND CULTURE. (a) The rubbish at Gezer shows history in distinct layers, and the layers themselves are in distinct groups< 33 >. At the bottom are layers Canaanite, not Semiticu; above these, layers e S r e s m o it f ic J , e A w m is o h ri c t u e rt f{ u iv re in o g_ f o t la h c e e m to on J a e r w ch is y h ; an an d d la h t i e g r he t r im s e ti s l . l, lay
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