Actually, you wouldn't have to convert. You would be just like me, a Ba'al Chuvah (literally master of repentance). I wasn't always orthodox. One of the big things is we don't have to be re-circumcised. :) (A circumcised convert has a symbolic drop of blood drawn.)
As for the Canaanites, if we go by biblical accounts for general lineage, they were not in the same genetic line as the Jews/Arabs. But when talking about genetic lines, we're only talking about a few genes here and there. Jewish. If I were to convert to Judaism, there are rituals that I wouldn't > have to do because of that, which you would have to go through G because > you > do not have the "lineage". > > They are part of a race...the same race that also spawned the Arabs and a > few other peoples like the non-Arab Palestinians (aka Canaanites). > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:331992 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
