The Oxford Assyriologist A. H. Sayce sets out what the new archaeology of the 1890s could tell about Canaan before the Israelites: the land and its peoples, Babylonian influence and Egyptian conquest, the patriarchs of Genesis, Egyptian travellers’ reports and Canaanite religion. He quotes freely from the Tell el-Amarna letters of local kings to the pharaoh.
A Victorian scholar’s synthesis, now dated in its conclusions, for readers interested in the history of biblical archaeology. Download the free EPUB.