Description: The aim here is to employ models and social analyses to enhance the reader's understanding of the Iron Age world that is conveyed in the Hebrew Bible texts. Also important is to convey the importance of comparative work in terms of archaeology and ancient Near Eastern texts, especially from Assyria.
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K. C. Hanson (PhD Claremont Graduate School) is editor in chief at Wipf and Stock Publishers (Eugene, Oregon), after having taught biblical studies for sixteen years (1982-1998) and working as senior editor for biblical studies at Fortress Press (1998-2005). In addition to writing two volumes in the Proclamation series for Fortress, he compiled and edited seven volumes for Fortress Classics in Biblical Studies. He translated Andre LaCocque's Ruth from the French for the Continental Commentary series (Fortress, 2004) and Renate Bethge's Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Brief Life (Fortress, 2003). He also edited Sigmund Mowinckel's Religion and Cult(Cascade, 2012) and translatedand edited Hermann Gunkel's Elijah, Yahweh, and Baal (Cascade, 2014).