Endnote 28 – When Was the Age of the Patriarchs?—Of Amorites, Canaanites, and Archaeology

The use of Amurru to refer to all or part of Syria continued into the period of the Assyrian Empire. For examples of the use of this term in Egyptian and Hittite texts of the Late Bronze Age see ANET, pp. 256 and 319, and for Assyrian texts of the Early Iron Age, see ANET, pp. 275 and 228.