Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- I. The Religion of Canaan and the God of Israel -- 1. The God of the Fathers -- 2. 'El and the God of the Fathers -- 'El in the Ugaritic Pantheon -- The Epithets of 'El -- 'El in the Canaanite Myth -- 'El and Bal Hamon -- The Abode of 'El -- 'El the Divine Patriarch -- 3. Yahweh and 'El -- 'El in the Bible -- 'El Epithets in Patriarchal Narratives -- The Name Yahweh -- II. The Cultus of the Israelite League -- 4. Prolegomena -- The Myth and Ritual School -- The History-of-Redemption School -- 5. The Divine Warrior -- Psalm 24 and the Warrior-King -- The "Ritual Conquest" -- Transformations of the "Ritual Conquest" -- 6. The Song of the Sea and Canaanite Myth -- The Mythic Cycle of Ba'l and 'Anat -- The Song of the Sea -- III. League and Kingdom -- 7. Yahweh and Ba'l -- The Theophany of Ba'l -- The Storm Theophany in the Bible -- The Revelation at Sinai -- History of the Tradition of the Storm Theophany -- 'El's Modes of Revelation -- Yahweh and the Council of the Gods -- Ba'l versus Yahweh -- 8. The Priestly Houses of Early Israel -- The Classical View of Israel's Early Priesthood -- The Function of the Stories of Conflict -- The Priestly Genealogies -- The Priests of David's National Shrine -- IV. Kings and Prophets -- 9. The Ideologies of Kingship in the Era of the Empire: Conditional Covenant and Eternal Decree -- The Limited Monarchy of Saul and Monarchy in the Northern Kingdom -- Davidic Kingship -- The Imperial Rule of Solomon -- The Judaean Royal Theology -- The Typology of the Royal Ideology -- A Brief Excursus on berit, "Covenant" -- 10. The Themes of the Book of Kings and the Structure of the Deuteronomistic History -- The Contemporary Discussion of the Structure of the Deuteronomistic History -- The Two Themes of the First Edition of the Deuteronomistic History (Dtr1).

The Theme of the Exilic Edition of the History (Dtr2) -- The Two Editions of the Deuteronomistic History -- V. Exile and Apocalyptic -- 11. The Priestly Work -- The So-Called P-Source of the Pentateuch -- The P System of Covenants -- Is P a Narrative Source? -- Documents Used by P -- Archaizing Language in P -- The Date of P -- The Composition of the Priestly Work -- 12. The Early History of the Apocalyptic Community at Qumrân -- The Archaeological Context of the Qumrân -- Qumrân and the Essenes -- The Essenes: Priestly Apocalyptists -- Essene Origins -- A Note on the Study of Apocalyptic Origins -- Index of Biblical Citations -- Index of Ugaritic Citations -- Index of Technical Terms -- Index of Authors -- General Index.