Transcripts for CNN Jerusalem City of Faith and Fury 20211225 02:05:00

assertions are what made jerusalem what it is. >> for centuries, people who lived in and around jerusalem accepted that as a truth. so when we're reading the biblical stories, yes, we are reading the history of jerusalem. >> and the story of the holy city begins around 1,000 b.c. in the land of canaan. >> in 1,000 b.c., the major kingdoms were the egyptian kingdom to the south and the hittites to the north. this land of canaan in between, that was just a battlefield that the big boys came to duke it out on. >> canaan is the land that the israelites believe that god gave to them as the land that they were to inherit. the problem is, is that there were already people in canaan, the canaanites. according to the bible, god commands the israelites to kill

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