Volume 24.1-2

Law, Society, and Religion: Essays in Memory of George E. Mendenhall,
edited by Bernard M. Levinson (ISBN 978-0-9856142-4-9)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION, Bernard M. Levinson

GEORGE EMERY MENDENHALL: IN MEMORIAM (13 AUGUST 1916-5 AUGUST 2016), Herbert B. Huffmon

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ABBREVIATIONS

LAW AND COVENANT IN THE HEBREW BIBLE

BERNARD M. LEVINSON
Revisiting the “and” in Law and Covenant in the Hebrew Bible: What the Evidence from Tell Tayinat Suggests about the Relationship between Law and Religion in the Ancient Near East

JACOB L. WRIGHT
The Raison d’Etre of the Biblical Covenant: Assessing Mendenhall’s Emphasis on Kinship

JOEL S. BADEN
The Transformation of the Decalogue into Law and Covenant

REBECCA SCHARBACH WOLLENBERG
The Treasure Hunt for Biblical Origins: Or, Why Do We Need to Know Who Said What, When, and to Whom? [A Response]

LAW AND COVENANT IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST

DAVID P. WRIGHT
The Adaptation and Fusion of Near Eastern Treaty and Law in Legal Narrative of the Hebrew Bible

BRUCE WELLS
Temple Loyalty and the Loyalty Oath in the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods

HERBERT B. HUFFMON
Contrasting Jurisprudence in Ancient Near Eastern Suzerainty Treaties and Covenants

C. JAY CRISOSTOMO
Considering Law Collections, Covenants, and Contracts in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East [A Response]

LAW AND SCRIPTURE AFTER THE BIBLE

ISHAY ROSEN-ZVI
To See the Voices: Midrash and/as Revelation

CAROL BAKHOS
Covenantal Language in the Bible and Qur’an

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

AUTHOR INDEX

INDEX OF SCRIPTURE

OLD TESTAMENT/HEBREW BIBLE
SEPTUAGINT AND DEUTEROCANONICAL BOOKS
NEW TESTAMENT

INDEX OF OTHER ANCIENT SOURCES

ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN SOURCES
RABBINIC SOURCES
EARLY CHRISTIAN TEXTS

PLATES FOR LEVINSON'S "REVISITING THE 'AND' IN LAW AND COVENANT"


 
 


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