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

The Greeks viewed the Mediterranean not as a barrier but as a network of routes connecting people who dwelt along its shores. This is familiar to any student of Greece. ...the Hebrews express themselves similarly in passages like Psalm 8: 9 ("crossing the paths of the seas").

For every mound excavated in the Near East, a hundred remain untouched. ...most of the excavated mounds have been dug only in small part.

Transjordan, or Palestine east of the Jordan Rift is not sufficiently known and has therefore been in need of archeological study. ...these nations in antiquity belonged to a group of people called the Canaanites. Culturally and linguistically they were practically identical with the Judean and Israelite 'Canaanites' west of the Rift.