Amorites

Bronze Age Palestinians

The Amorites were a Semitic people who inhabited parts of ancient Mesopotamia and the Levant during the third and second millennia BCE.

They appear prominently in the Hebrew Bible as one of the peoples occupying Canaan before the Israelites, often listed alongside Hittites, Jebusites, and other groups.

In biblical usage, Amorite sometimes serves as a general term for the pre-Israelite inhabitants of the land.

The Amorites dwelt in the hill country.

mesopotamian

Akkadians

Ancient Semitic Mesopotamian civilization

SumeriansAncient southern Mesopotamian people
BabyloniansAncient Mesopotamian civilization
AssyriansAncient Mesopotamian empire builders

Hammurabi · cuneiform · city-state · Tigris · Euphrates · Ur · Semitic · pastoral · nomadic

archaeological

Bronze Age

Early metalworking civilization period

LevantEastern Mediterranean coastal region
JerichoAncient walled Palestinian city
excavationAct of unearthing

pottery · tablets · inscriptions · stele · fortifications · temples · burials · stratigraphy · artifacts · ancient DNA

biblical

Canaanites

Ancient Near Eastern people

HittitesAncient Anatolian civilization
IsraelitesAncient Hebrew people
JoshuaBiblical military leader

Judges · Moses · Abraham · Genesis · Deuteronomy · Numbers · conquest · promised land · Transjordan · Hebron

Opposites

biblical ethnic/national opposition

AmoritesIsraelites

Ancient Hebrew people

Hebrews · Children of Israel · Jews · chosen people · Levites

canaanite vs. mesopotamian civilizations

AmoritesSumerians

Ancient southern Mesopotamian people

Akkadians · Canaanites · Egyptians · Hittites · Assyrians

Family

Amory

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