A collection of essays on the history of the biblical tradition by George E. Mendenhall (1916-2016). Includes studies on law, covenant, and the Hebrew conquest

This work offers a reconstruction of the politics of ancient Israel within the wider political environment of the ancient Near East. Gottwald begins by question

This volume of essays draws together specialists in the field to explain, illustrate and analyze this religious diversity in Ancient Israel.

"Freed from contemporary theological categories that have been informed by ideological and psychological issues, but ever mindful of the social location of gend

In this book, Brian Doak analyzes the way biblical authors described the bodies of some of their most iconic male heroic figures, such as Jacob, the Judges, Sau