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Canaan used the Bible, particularly the Old Testament, as a basic source to compare past and present agricultural practices.<ref name=Nashef/> He was influenced in this by the Old Testament studies produced by Gustaf Dalman, [[Albrecht Alt]], and [[Martin Noth]].<ref name=Nashef/> Canaan and Dalman, who headed The Evangelical German Institute beginning in 1903, apparently shared the idea that it is not possible to understand the Old Testament without studying Palestinian folklore.<ref name=Nashef/>
In 1913, the Journal of the German Palestine Society Canaan's article on "The Calendar of Palestinian Peasants," his first work in the field of Palestinian folklore.<ref name=Nashef/> A year later, he published his first book, ''Superstition and Popular Medicine''.<ref name=Nashef/>
==Philosophical bases==
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