George Emery Mendenhall is an author and Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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’s Department of Near East

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ern Studies.

Mendenhall was first an ordained Lutheran minister, and during World War II

World War II

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 he served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy

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. After the war, Mendenhall obtained a Ph.D. in Semitic languages and began a long career in Near Eastern and biblical studies as well as related archeology.http://www.mytown.ca/ev.php?URL_ID=118446&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201 The Tenth Generation was popular with some New Left scholars in the mid seventies because it held that the Ancient Israelite settlement of Israel was actually the result of a cultural egalitarian revolution within Canaanite society.

Partial bibliography

• Law and Covenant in Israel and the Ancient Near East Pittsburgh: The Biblical Colloquium, 1955.http://home.earthlink.net/~cadman777/Law_Cov_Mendenhall_TITLE.htm
• The Tenth Generation: The Origins of the Biblical Tradition Johns Hopkins, 1973. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0801816548
• Ancient Israel’s Faith and History: An Introduction the Bible in Context (Edited by Gary A. Herion) Westminster/John Knox Press, 2001.https://www.eisenbrauns.com/ECOM/_2D10R1MEO.HTM
• Our Misunderstood Bible BookSurge Publishing, 2006 http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1419637223

See also

• The Quest for the Kingdom of God: Studies in Honor of George E. Mendenhall Eisenbrauns, 1983. https://www.eisenbrauns.com/ECOM/_2D10RFCDO.HTM

External links

• "Law and Convenant in Israel and the Ancient Near East" by Mendenhall