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Letters from Canaan's mayors

The Amarna Letters are mostly complaints from Canaanite city rulers to Pharaoh about rival neighbors, begging him to send archers.

Ancient politics was petty and familiar.

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Pharaoh appointed them as 'mayors,' but behind his back they called themselves kings. They feared losing land and life to ambitious neighbors.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 33

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