The Quest for the Historical Israel Quotes

“The most important of these texts are the Nuzi tablets from northern Iraq, which date to the fifteenth century B.C.E. To cite just a few examples, in Nuzi a barren wife is required to provide a slave woman for her husband to bear his children—a clear parallel to the biblical story of Sarai and Hagar in Gen 16.”
― Israel Finkelstein, The Quest for the Historical Israel: Debating Archaeology and the History of Early Israel