George Emery Mendenhall: An Appreciation

The Editors

I. THE FEDERATION AND THE EARLY MONARCHY

Two Models for the Origins of Ancient Israel: Social Revolution or Frontier Development - Norman K. Gottwald

The Sack of Israel - John L. McKenzie

Succession and Genealogy in the Davidic Dynasty - James W. Flanagan

II. COVENANT AND LAW

Enforcing the Covenant: The Mechanisms of Judicial Authority in Early Israel - Robert R. Wilson

Covenant in Narratives from Late OT Times - Dennis J. McCarthy, S. J.

In Praise of the Israelite Mispaha: Legal Themes in the Book of Ruth - Baruch A. Levine

III. PROPHECY AND POETRY

The Social Role of Amos’ Message - Herbert B. Huffmon

Prophetic Eschatological Visions and the Kingdom of God - Walter Harrelson

The Divine King and the Human Community in Isaiah’s Vision of the Future - J. J. M. Roberts

Imperial Dream: Text and Sense of Mic 5:4b-5 - Delbert R. Hillers

Discourse on Prophetic Discourse - David Noel Freedman

Studies in the Structure of Hebrew Verse: The Prosody of the Psalm of Jonah - Frank M. Cross

IV. ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY

The Use of Ethnography in an Archaeological Research Design - Albert E. Glock

Social Stratification and Cultural Continuity at Alalakh - Alberto R. W. Green

What is a Temple? A Preliminary Typology - John M. Lundquist

‘Your Father Was an Amorit’ (Ezek 16:3, 45): An Essay on the Amorite Problem in OT Traditions - J. Tracy Luke

Heshbon: The First Casualty in the Israelite Quest for the Kingdom of God - Lawrence T. Geraty

V. BIBLICAL IDEOLOGY

Magic, Monotheism, and the Sin of Moses - Jacob Milgrom

Qoheleth and the Reformation of Wisdom - Frank A. Spina

From Holy War to Holy Martyrdom - William H. Brownlee

George Emery Mendenhall, A Bibliography - M. O’Connor

INDEXES

Author Index

Scripture Index