This collection of papers does not pretend to be an introduction or survey of iconography - not even a full account of Egyptian influences on Canaanite or Israelite concepts in religion and art. These chapters are for the most part the results of years of contacts with Canaanite and Israelite objects of art.
Besides dealing with objects and groups of objects, the book deals in its first part with certain wider aspects of Egyptian activities and influences in Canaan: the paper on Canaanite names deals with a linguistic aspect of the relation between the two cultures and the discussion on the Egyptian temples in Canaan aims to show that this field promises more than we have
actually discovered up till now.