Eric Cline

And our good friend, Sais, who thought he had found David and Solomon, which he didn't, he also said he had found Jerusalem.

He was correct.

He had found it, but he had only found it because the Germans had found it before him.

And they had published and said there were five or even six tablets that mentioned Jerusalem.

And then Say said, oh, yes, yes, yes, yes.

I said that last April.

And, you know, in fact, he had.

But anyway, so, yes, there's a king named Abdi-Heba, king of Jerusalem, who is having problems himself.

Exactly.

Yes, these are the local indigenous people.

They go back to at least 3000 BC, if not before that.

And yeah, they are, as you put it, they are caught between the two powers.

In fact, what it looks like from these letters is that, especially up in the north, in what is now northern Syria, the Canaanite vassals are fighting proxy wars on behalf of the Hittites and the Egyptians.

It will erupt into open warfare at the Battle of Kadesh in 1274.

But at this point, yeah, the Canaanites are just caught between the major powers.

Yeah, there were a lot.

And then you've got the gods that were over in Canaan as well.

You've got a lot of gods and goddesses running around.

Yeah, exactly.

And then you've got the Hittite gods.