“ Shepherding agreements such as those between Laban and Jacob, ” says the magazine Biblical Archaeology Review, “would have been very familiar to the ancient writers and readers of the Biblical text. ”
وقد اكتُشفت نصوص اتفاقيات قديمة كهذه في نوزي ولارسا وغيرها من المواقع في العراق .‏