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

The competent archeologist can date pottery much as some of us can date cars or dresses of our own century.

The thesis of this book is simply that Greek and Hebrew civilisations are parallel structures built upon the same East Mediterranean foundation. ...the evidence is so abundant that our problem is one of selection and arrangement.

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