The priestly guilds were highly mobile, with the result that cultic practices crossed ethnic lines over wide areas. - Cyrus Herzl Gordon

Despite the polytheism of the East Mediterranean nations, monotheistic trends were always present even in such crass polytheisms such as we find in Homer and in Egyptian literature.

The most important document at Ugarit for both Biblical and Homeric studies is the Epic of Kret. It anticipates the Helen-of-Troy motif in the Iliad and Genesis, thus bridging the gap between the two literatures.

The Sabbath, perhaps the most important labour legislation next to the abolition of slavery, is a Hebrew institution.