The Cultural and Religious Creativity of Ancient Israel : the collected essays of George E. Mendenhall

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of abbeviations = vii
• Preface : The Contribution of George Emery Mendenhall = xi
• Excerpts from My Life of Adventure : The Early Years by George E. Mendenhall = xxiii
• George Emery Mendenhall (1916-2016), by Peter Machinist = li
• Ⅰ. General Perspectives on Religion and the Human Condition
• Man Is More than Political (1956) = 3
• It's Great to Be Human! (1961) = 9
• The Conflict between Values Systems and Social Control (1975) = 17
• The First Half of Human History (1974) = 33
• Ⅱ. Approaches to the History of Ancient Israel
• Biblical History in Transition (1961) = 51
• Migration Theories vs. Cultural Change as an Explanation for Early Israel (1976) = 76
• Method in the Study of Early Hebrew History (1964) = 88
• The Ancient in the Modern-And Vice Versa (1976) = 95
• Toward a Method for Historical Lexicography of Semitic Languages (1990) = 118
• Biblical Interpretation and the Albright School (1987) = 129
• Ⅲ. Praeparatio : The Near Eastern Context of Ancient Israel
• The Amorite Heritage in the West (2004) = 145
• Myth, Ideology, and the Worship of Baal (1985) = 152
• Jerusalem in the Amarna Letters (2007) = 166
• Cultural History and the Philistine Problem (1986) = 171
• Qurayyah and the Midianites (1984) = 194
• Ⅳ. The Formative Period : The Origins and Formation of Yahwistic Israel
• Covenant Forms in Israelite Tradition (1954) = 209
• The Hebrew Conquest of Palestine (1962) = 234
• Social Organization in Early Israel (1976) = 253
• "Change and Decay in All Around I See" : Conquest, Covenant, and the Tenth Generation (1976) = 276
• Between Theology and Archaeology (1978) = 291
• Ancient Israel's Hyphenated History (1983) = 297
• The Suzerainty Treaty Structure : Thirty Years Later (1990) = 312
• Ⅴ. The Adaptive Period : Yahwistic Faith in an Ancient Near Eastern Setting
• Ancient Oriental and Biblical Law (1954) = 333
• The Relation of the Individual to Political Society in Ancient Israel (1960) = 352
• The Census Lists of Numbers 1 and 26 (1958) = 372
• Samuel's "Broken Rib" : Deuteronomy 32 (1975) = 388
• The Monarchy (1975) = 400
• The Nature and Purpose of the Abraham Narratives (1987) = 419
• Ⅵ. The Traditional Period : Religion under the Monarchy
• Jerusalem from 1000 B.C.E. to 63 B.C.E. (1989) = 443
• Prophecy and Poetry in Modern Yemen (2000) = 476
• Ⅶ. Reformation : Reappraisals of Tradition after the Monarchy
• The Shady Side of Wisdom: The Date and Purpose of Genesis 3 (1974) = 485
• From Witchcraft to Justice : Death and Afterlife in the Hebrew Bible (1992) = 503
• The Palestinian Grassroots Origins of New Testament Christology (1986) = 521
• Epilogue : Is Generation X the Tenth Generation? (1999) = 531
• Appendix 1 : George E. Mendenhall : A Bibliography of His Writings and Publications (1938-2007) = 537
• Appendix 2 : George E. Mendenhall's Graduate Students and Their Dissertations = 545
• Works Cited = 547
• Index of Authors = 567
• Index of Scripture = 571
• Subject Index = 577