Dr. Noel Weeks is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Ancient History at the University of Sydney.

Review ~ International Review of Biblical Studies, vol 51, 2004/05

• Ch. 1 Introduction; Asking New Questions; Why bother? The Rise and Fall of the Treaty in Scholarship; Overview of the Data; Problems of Silence; Preview of Results; Ch. 2 Mesopotamia; Defining the Area and the Culture; Outline of the History; The Lagash Treaties; The "Treaty" of Naram-Sin with Elam; Interpreting Silence; Hammurabi; The Old Assyrian Evidence; Summary of Old Babylonian and Old Assyrian; Evidence; The Middle Babylonian Period and the; Kudurru; A Middle Babylonian Divine-Human; Covenant? The Middle Assyrian Evidence; Mesopotamia in the First Millennium; Summary; Ch 3 The Hittites; Overview; Outline of the History; The Early Evidence; The Early Hittite Treaties; The Treaties of the Empire Period; Instructions and Service Oaths; Land Grants; A Ritual Text with an Oath; Accidents of Discovery and Archives; Summary of the Evidence; Treaty Concepts and Hittite Society; The Relationship to Mesopotamia; Reconsidering the Old Kingdom; Ch. 4 Egypt; Overview; Outline of the History; The Evidence for Parity Treaties; Vassal Treaties; Lessons from History; The Place of Egypt; Ch. 5 Syria; Historical Context; Ebla; Alalakh; Mari; The Treaty between Ugarit and Amurru; Covenants with Gods at Ugarit; The Sefire Treaties; Arslan Tash; Tentative Conclusion; Ch. 6 Israel; The Methodological Problems; A Historical Framework; The Phenomena in General; The Problem of Development; Covenant and Treaty: a Relationship? The Time and Nature of the Connection Baal/El Berith at Shechem; The "Objectivity" of Extra-biblical Analogy; Israelite Covenant: an Internal; Development? The Place of Israel in Treaty History; Ch. 7 The Significance Of It All; The Problem of Definition; The Origin Problem; The Problem of Development; Political Structure and Historiography; A Basic Thesis; Parallel Developments and; Convergences; The Special Case of Israel; The Special Case of Egypt; Divine-Human Covenants; The Resultant Model

Dr. Noel Weeks is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Ancient History at the University of Sydney.

Review ~ International Review of Biblical Studies, vol 51, 2004/05

• Ch. 1 Introduction; Asking New Questions; Why bother? The Rise and Fall of the Treaty in Scholarship; Overview of the Data; Problems of Silence; Preview of Results; Ch. 2 Mesopotamia; Defining the Area and the Culture; Outline of the History; The Lagash Treaties; The "Treaty" of Naram-Sin with Elam; Interpreting Silence; Hammurabi; The Old Assyrian Evidence; Summary of Old Babylonian and Old Assyrian; Evidence; The Middle Babylonian Period and the; Kudurru; A Middle Babylonian Divine-Human; Covenant? The Middle Assyrian Evidence; Mesopotamia in the First Millennium; Summary; Ch 3 The Hittites; Overview; Outline of the History; The Early Evidence; The Early Hittite Treaties; The Treaties of the Empire Period; Instructions and Service Oaths; Land Grants; A Ritual Text with an Oath; Accidents of Discovery and Archives; Summary of the Evidence; Treaty Concepts and Hittite Society; The Relationship to Mesopotamia; Reconsidering the Old Kingdom; Ch. 4 Egypt; Overview; Outline of the History; The Evidence for Parity Treaties; Vassal Treaties; Lessons from History; The Place of Egypt; Ch. 5 Syria; Historical Context; Ebla; Alalakh; Mari; The Treaty between Ugarit and Amurru; Covenants with Gods at Ugarit; The Sefire Treaties; Arslan Tash; Tentative Conclusion; Ch. 6 Israel; The Methodological Problems; A Historical Framework; The Phenomena in General; The Problem of Development; Covenant and Treaty: a Relationship? The Time and Nature of the Connection Baal/El Berith at Shechem; The "Objectivity" of Extra-biblical Analogy; Israelite Covenant: an Internal; Development? The Place of Israel in Treaty History; Ch. 7 The Significance Of It All; The Problem of Definition; The Origin Problem; The Problem of Development; Political Structure and Historiography; A Basic Thesis; Parallel Developments and; Convergences; The Special Case of Israel; The Special Case of Egypt; Divine-Human Covenants; The Resultant Model

Dr. Noel Weeks is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Ancient History at the University of Sydney.

Review ~ International Review of Biblical Studies, vol 51, 2004/05

• Ch. 1 Introduction; Asking New Questions; Why bother? The Rise and Fall of the Treaty in Scholarship; Overview of the Data; Problems of Silence; Preview of Results; Ch. 2 Mesopotamia; Defining the Area and the Culture; Outline of the History; The Lagash Treaties; The "Treaty" of Naram-Sin with Elam; Interpreting Silence; Hammurabi; The Old Assyrian Evidence; Summary of Old Babylonian and Old Assyrian; Evidence; The Middle Babylonian Period and the; Kudurru; A Middle Babylonian Divine-Human; Covenant? The Middle Assyrian Evidence; Mesopotamia in the First Millennium; Summary; Ch 3 The Hittites; Overview; Outline of the History; The Early Evidence; The Early Hittite Treaties; The Treaties of the Empire Period; Instructions and Service Oaths; Land Grants; A Ritual Text with an Oath; Accidents of Discovery and Archives; Summary of the Evidence; Treaty Concepts and Hittite Society; The Relationship to Mesopotamia; Reconsidering the Old Kingdom; Ch. 4 Egypt; Overview; Outline of the History; The Evidence for Parity Treaties; Vassal Treaties; Lessons from History; The Place of Egypt; Ch. 5 Syria; Historical Context; Ebla; Alalakh; Mari; The Treaty between Ugarit and Amurru; Covenants with Gods at Ugarit; The Sefire Treaties; Arslan Tash; Tentative Conclusion; Ch. 6 Israel; The Methodological Problems; A Historical Framework; The Phenomena in General; The Problem of Development; Covenant and Treaty: a Relationship? The Time and Nature of the Connection Baal/El Berith at Shechem; The "Objectivity" of Extra-biblical Analogy; Israelite Covenant: an Internal; Development? The Place of Israel in Treaty History; Ch. 7 The Significance Of It All; The Problem of Definition; The Origin Problem; The Problem of Development; Political Structure and Historiography; A Basic Thesis; Parallel Developments and; Convergences; The Special Case of Israel; The Special Case of Egypt; Divine-Human Covenants; The Resultant Model