A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
Archibald Henry Sayce (1845–1933) was a prominent British Assyriologist and linguist, known for his work in the fields of ancient Near Eastern languages and history. He made significant contributions to the study of cuneiform and was one of the earliest scholars to support the decipherment of Hittite inscriptions. Sayce authored numerous works, including "The Principles of Comparative Philology" and "Assyria: Its Princes, Priests, and People." His scholarship helped advance the understanding of early Mesopotamian and Anatolian cultures.

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CHAPTER I THE LAND Patriarchal Palestine! There are some who would tell us that the very name is a misnomer. Have we not been assured by the German critics and their English disciples that there were no patriarchs and no Patriarchal Age? And yet, the critics notwithstanding, the Patriarchal Age has actually existed. While criticism, so-called, has been busy in demolishing the records of the Pentateuch,... more...

INTRODUCTION One of the first facts which strike the traveller in Palestine is the smallness of a country which has nevertheless occupied so large a space in the history of civilised mankind. It is scarcely larger than an English county, and a considerable portion of it is occupied by rocky mountains and barren defiles where cultivation is impossible. Its population could never have been great, and... more...