By Yair Hoffman, Henning Graf Reventlow, Benjamin Uffenheimer

This quantity comprises papers from the 3rd symposium held through the collage of Tel Aviv, Israel, and the Ruhr collage, Bochum, Germany, with the purpose of furthering discussion among Jewish and Christian biblical students. The papers study the ways that political matters and occasions are mirrored within the Bible and within the postbiblical literature, the time period 'theopolitics' expressing the conviction of either groups that the politics of human existence have continuously been and stay topic to the rule of thumb and windfall of God. The wish of the symposium is that via exam of the ways that Jews and Christians have mirrored upon political and moral theories there could come up new probabilities for higher mutual understanding.

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8. See note 5 above and I. Finkelstein, The Archaeology of the Period of the Settlement and Judges (Hebrew; Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1986), pp. 5255. 9. Mizpah is identified with Tell en-Nasbeh. For the report of the last excavations see Finkelstein, Archaeology, pp. 56-59. 10. The identification of Rock of Rimmon with a rock close to modern Rammun, which is located four miles east of Bethel, is almost generally accepted. See G. Cohen, 'Rock of Rimmon', Encyclopaedia Biblica, V (Hebrew; Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 1968), pp.

Anbar, Les tribus amurrites de Mari, pp. 67-68. ANBAR 'Thou Shalt Make No Covenant With Them' 47 war breaks out and Aram is defeated by Israel. The next year BenHadad goes up to Aphek to fight Israel and again he is defeated by the king of Israel, who captures the city of Aphek. The king of Aram pleads for peace and the king of Israel replies 'he is my brother' (TIN Kin, v. 32), that is to say a partner in a treaty between equals. The representatives of Ahab reply using the same term, 'Thy brother BenHadad' ("nrrp -pnK, v.

13). It is presented only as a possible option for lodging, not even practical, since by the time they had reached Jebus, 'the day was far spent', and when they reached Gibeah, 5. See A. Demsky, 'Geba, Gibeah and Gibeon—"An Historico-Geographic Riddle'", BASOR 212 (1973), pp. 26-31. M. Arnold's 'Gibeah in Israelite History and Tradition' (PhD dissertation, Emory University, 1986). 6. See B. Mazar, 'Yabesh-gilead', Encyclopaedia Biblica, III (Hebrew; Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 1958), pp. 459-61.

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