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K.A. Kitchen, Ancient Orient and Old Testament. London: Inter-Varsity Press, 1966. Hbk. pp.191. [p.xii] JKF Jahrbuch für Kleinasiatische Forschung JNES Journal of Near Eastern Studies JPOS Journal of the Palestine Oriental Society JRAS Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society JSS Journal of Semitic Studies JTS Journal of Theological Studies, new series JTVI Journal of Transactions of the Victoria Institute KS Kleine Schriften, I-III (A. Alt), 1953 - 59 LAAA Liverpool Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology LXX Septuagint MDOG Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft zu Berlin MIO Mitteilungen des Instituts für Orientforschung MVAG Mitteilungen der Vorderasiatisch-Ägyptischen Gesellschaft NBD New Bible Dictionary (ed. J. D. Douglas, F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, R. V. G. Tasker, D. J. Wiseman), 1962 OBL Orientalia et Biblica Lovaniensia OLZ Orientalistische Literaturzeitung PEF AnnualPalestine Exploration Fund Annual PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly Proc. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society APS RB Revue Biblique RHA Revue Hittite et Asianique RSO Rivista degli Studi Orientali RT Recueil de Travaux relatifs à la philologie et d 1’archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes SBT Studies in Biblical Theology THB Tyndale House Bulletin, now Tyndale Bulletin TSF Theological Students’ Fellowship Bulletin Bulletin UM Ugaritic Manual, I-III (C. H. Gordon), 1955 UT Ugaritic Textbook, [I-III] (idem), 1965 Urk. IV Urkunden IV (18. Dynastie), Hefte 1-16 (K. Sethe), 1927-30; Hefte 17-22 (H. W. Helck), 1955 - 58 VT Vetus Testamentum VTS Vetus Testamentum, Supplements, 1953 onwards WBD Westminster Bible Dictionary (J. D. Davis, ed. H. S. Gehman), 1944 and reprs. WTJ Westminster Theological Journal ZA Zeitschrift für Assyriologie and verwandte Gebiete Z ÄS Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache and Altertumskunde ZAW Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ZDMG Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenldndischen Gesellschaft ZDPV Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palestina-Vereins
K.A. Kitchen, Ancient Orient and Old Testament. London: Inter-Varsity Press, 1966. Hbk. pp.191. [p.15] PART ONE PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS 1. ANCIENT ORIENT AND OLD TESTAMENT: THE BACKGROUND I. AN AGE OF CHANGE We live in times of sweeping change. Through all the millennia of human history, never have the changes effected by man’s efforts been so rapid and so revolutionary; and the pace does not slacken. Taken positively, the advances in human knowledge and discovery are breathtaking. Less than a lifetime separates the pioneer flight of Orville and Wilbur Wright made in 1903 from the orbits of the globe along which rockets have carried astronauts and cosmonauts in our own day. In this time we have also passed decisively from the old theory of an atom as the smallest indivisible unit of matter to the stark fact of the fission and fusion of atomic particles whose possible misuse threatens the very existence of civilization. In medicine, new classes of drugs and surgical techniques, hitherto undreamt-of, have turned former impossibilities into normal practice. Negatively speaking, the torrents of change have swept away much that was once held to be axiomatic, both in secluded branches of learning and in popular beliefs. In the natural sciences, successive new discoveries and resultant theories chase one another, often far ahead of the standard textbooks. In this world of searching analysis, the things of lasting validity and unchallengeable worth are few indeed. But these powerful tides of change are not limited in their effect to the natural or medical sciences, or to certain obvious aspects of daily life. Welling up from vast new knowledge in every sphere, their power is visible in every field of human endeavour. This is true even in disciplines which outwardly may seem to be remote from modern metamorphoses - even in such [p.16] subjects as Ancient Oriental history and literature and study of the Old Testament, the matters with which this book is concerned. In various spheres, 1 the nineteenth century witnessed a veritable outburst of new activity in human discovery and invention, and in the world of thought. Among other things, the latter 1 In industry, the effects of the ‘industrial revolution’: steel largely replacing iron; mechanical traction; emerging exploitation of gas and electricity; rise of telecommunications. In medicine, the first major advances since antiquity (e.g., the work of Pasteur, Lister, etc.). In zoology, the theories of Darwin; the founding of modern geology. Not
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