You questioned how Sidon related to Israel.
Here was the study text.
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The PCA shows that Sidon_BA clusters with three individuals from Early Bronze Age Jordan (Jordan_BA) found in a cave above the Neolithic site of ‘Ain Ghazal and probably associated with an Early Bronze Age village close to the site.13
This suggests that people from the highly differentiated urban culture on the Levant coast and inland people with different modes of subsistence were nevertheless genetically similar, supporting previous reports that the different cultural groups who inhabited the Levant during the Bronze Age, such as the Ammonites, Moabites, Israelites, and Phoenicians, each achieved their own cultural identities but all shared a common genetic and ethnic root with Canaanites.15
Lazaridis et al.13
reported that Jordan_BA can be modeled as mixture of Neolithic Levant (Levant_N) and Chalcolithic Iran (Iran_ChL). We computed the statistic f4(Levant_N, Sidon_BA; Ancient Eurasian, Chimpanzee) and found that populations from the Caucasus and ancient Iran shared more alleles with Sidon_BA than with Neolithic Levant (Figure 2A and S10pdf icon). We then used qpAdm8 (with parameter allsnps: YES) to test whether Sidon_BA can be modeled as mixture of Levant_N and any other ancient population in the dataset and found good support for the model of Sidon_BA being a mixture of Levant_N (48.4% 4.2%) and Iran_ChL (51.6% 4.2%) (Figure 2B; Table S3pdf icon).
J. N. Tubb and his book Canaanites was note 15 reference.
Then you were questioning whether Sidonians were ever part of Israel. (If they were able to be conquered, then the Abrahamic Covenant issue in the Bible seems to be saying they would have lived in an area that Israel should have control over)
The study makes the point that Canaanites survived (in the battles with Israel if they happened) and have the same DNA as Israelites and Jordanians.
I'm saying Israelites evolved out of Canaanites and that Hurrians would be part of their ancestry since Canaanites would be half Hurrian (Iranians) in blood type.
The mixing would have slowed down as Israelites developed particularities about who they would marry. (That has to do with how much the Israelite priesthood had the support of the kings, and then how much they could impose restrictions on the general populace)
The Biblical text at least states that the Israelites and Canaanites lived together. There is text that states marriages took place.
The Shechem story (Gen 34) states that the Hivites (Hurrians?) circumcised their penises and the Patriarch Jacob expected his family to mix in with them as a covenant matter.
Scholars say that the Israelite religion was influenced by the pre Israelite religion of Shechem.
hivites hurrians - Google Search
Edited by LamarkNewAge, : No reason given.