P2: 

In this new narrative, the problem of What happened to the Canaanites? disappears; for they simply became the Hebrews. (Not sure I have this schema correct, but hopefully it is a least recognizable as an amateurish depiction of recent research and theory.)

If that is what you mean by exploring the roots of Yahwism, I would have thought that many if not most of the lead presenters would be Jewish archeologists, and the conference would be from the bottom up a Jewish-Christian collaboration?

Elsewhere you mention that the association has Jewish members, but that doesn't make clear whether Jewish scholars, who I think have lead the way with these new theories on the origin of the Hebrews and Yahwism, are among the leading presenters. If Jewish scholars are not there in that role, then what the hell is going on here?

Again, if I have the topic more or less correct, then it is not hard to imagine how Orthodox Jewish rabbis would conceive of this, unfairly, as "anti-Semitism."