If Og of Bashan represents the fall of Rephaim ideology east of the Jordan, the Anakim represent its survival in the west. The biblical narrative makes a remarkable claim. After Joshua’s campaigns, we are told:
“There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the Israelites. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod did some remain.”
— Joshua 11:22
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