Anon. Enuma Elish: Babylonian Genesis.

Recited during the 4th day of the 8-day Akitu Festival (New Year). Essentially a literary homage to Marduk.

Hammurabi. Law Code

18th cent. B.C. Babylonian lawcode inscribed on stela.

Hittite Treaty between Mursilis (c. 1620-1595) and Duppi-Tessub Of Amurru

Beecher, Willis J. The Prophets and the Promise. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1963.

Substance of the Stone Lectures at Princeton . Chapter 8 "The Promise Doctrine as Taught in the NT."Chapter 9 "The Promise as Given to the Patriarchs."

Bock, Darrell . "Evangelical and the Use of the Old Testament in the New ." Bibliotheca Sacra , 142 (1985) 209-223, 306-319.

In a two-part article, Dallas Research Professor of New Testament Studies, Professor of Spiritual Development and Culture discusses the lack of consensus among evangelicals with respect to issues surrounding the N.T. use of the O.T.

Kaiser, Walter. "Inner Biblical Exegesis as a Model for Bridging the "Then" and "Now" Gap: Hos. 12:1-6." JETS 28/1 (1985) 33-46.

Kaiser does a "case study" of biblical exegesis and the distinction between the meaning of an ancient text and the significance of that single meaning for others in a different time and place.

Kitchen, Kenneth. "IThe Patriarchal Age: Myth or History?." BAR 21/2 (1995) 48-57, 88, 90-95.

Expert in biblical history and Egyptology compares biblical data with facts on the ground. He concludes that there is "mounting evidence that the basic inherited outline (of patriarchal history) is essentially sound.