Quote by A. H. SAYCE

“The Hittites and Amorites were therefore mingled together in the mountains of Palestine like the two races which ethnologists tell us go to form…

— A. H. SAYCE

“Amorites must have been in possession of Palestine long before the Hittites arrived there.”

— A. H. SAYCE

Hebron is a bone of contention between Israeli settlers and the Palestinians in part because Abraham is buried there, in the Tomb of the…

— Michael Korda

“We must regard the Amorites as the earlier population, among a part of whom the Hittites in later days settled and intermarried.”

— A. H. SAYCE

“The age of Hittite supremacy belongs to an earlier date than the rise of the monarchy in Israel; earlier, we may even say, than…

— A. H. SAYCE

“The great Hittite stronghold on the Euphrates, which had been for so many centuries the visible sign of their power and southern conquests, became…

— A. H. SAYCE

“It is therefore deeply tragic that Jerusalem should have become a bone of contention – with people killing each other by the thousand because…

— Jostein Gaarder

“Jerusalem, How cruel it was, after all, That the geographical center of their faith was not actually located within the confines of the Christian…

— Alaa Alghamdi

“To return to where we started, there have always been two Jerusalems, the temporal and the celestial, both ruled more by faith and emotion…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“Jerusalem, ----How cruel it was, after all, that the geographical center of their faith was not actually located within the confines of the Christian…

— Alaa Alghamdi

“Bath-sheba was not only the mother of Solomon, but also the distant ancestress of Christ. For us, therefore, these Hittites of Judæa have a…

— A. H. SAYCE

The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.

— Umberto Eco