Endnote 2 – When Was the Age of the Patriarchs?—Of Amorites, Canaanites, and Archaeology

Numbers 13:29. Arad, Gezer, Dor, Megiddo, Taanach, Beth-Shan, En-Dor and Hazor are among those cities designated as Canaanite. Eglon, Lachish, Hebron, Jarmuth, Jerusalem, Ai and Heshbon are described as Amorite. Jerusalem is called Amorite in Joshua 10:3 while in Joshua 15:8, 63 and II Samuel 5:6 it is said to be inhabited by Jebusites. As pointed out below, since “Amorite” could sometimes be used as a general term to cover a number of other groups (presumably closely related), it is possible that the Jebusites were simply one tribal group included in the more general term Amorite.