The recent appearance of a new book on Judith from Catholic hands1 highlights the interest
which exegetes have taken in this deuterocanonical work within the last few decades, and�…

Commendations are in order for all those who participated in writing, editing, and publishing
this magnificent, monumental one-volume (or rather, 2 volumes in one) commentary on the�…

Jehoshaphat and his successors seem to have been mere vassals of the powerful dynasty
of Omri. They are never mentioned in the inscriptions of Shalmaneser II, which probably�…

How many of us really feel that the prophets of the Old Testament were actually men and
women? Is not our attitude somewhat that of the college student of whom Professor H�…

One of the most influential ideas in recent biblical scholarships, summarised in the first
chapter of this book, is the theory of the Israelite amphictyony put forward by the late Martin�…

It is unlikely that the choice of Jerusalem was merely an arbitrary political decision (Smith,
1987, p. 86), given other hilltops in the Judean Hills that might have made a more effective�…

With the accession of Manasseh in 696 Bc reactionary sentiment became for a time supreme
in Judah. There were many causes which contributed to this end. Hezekiah had denied to�…

This book, the third notable work on the subject which has appeared in Germany during the
last three years, is described in the preface as an attempt to enable students to distinguish�…