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EDITORIAL

With this issue we reach the end of our second Unit and our We thank our subscribers, who have second year of publication. financial the ensured viability of the Journal, and our contributors, We have not achieved who have created a character for the Journal. all our original aims, but we are glad to have found so many scholars prepared to engage in discussion and to offer us papers of wideranging, rather than atomistic, significance. Three forthcoming papers, by Thomas L. Thompson of Durham, North Carolina,on &dquo;The Background of the Patriarchs&dquo;, by John Barton of Oxford on &dquo;Understanding Old Testament Ethics&dquo;, and by Niels Peter Lemche of Aarhus (previously Copenhagen) on &dquo;Davids Rise&dquo; will no doubt stimulate further discussions.
One change in our policy which will be important to potential contributors is that we do not any longer ask that, when manuscripts are first submitted to us for editorial consideration, they should be typed according to our printing format (as specified on the back But obviously it speeds the production inside cover of this issue). of an acceptable manuscript if it is submitted in &dquo;camera-ready&dquo; form, and it reduces the cost of the journal if authors are willing to have their papers retyped according to our format if their conWe would not like anyone, however, to tributions are accepted. hesitate to submit a paper for our journal for lac of access to a

good-quality typewriter.
As for the Supplement Series, subscribers - especially those who recommend books for their institutions libraries - may like to know that as from No.4, R.N. Whybrays Thanksgiving for a An Interpretation of Isaiah 53, we are able to Liberated Prophet. supply hardback (sewn, case-bound) copies of all monographs longer than 100 pp. (the extra charge is a standard 2.50; $5.00; DM 10; David M. Gunns The Story of King David: Genre and or equivalent).

Interpretation (Supplement Series, 6) has now appeared, and we expect to produce in the next couple of months David Joblings The Sense of Biblical Narrative: Three Structural Analyses in the old Testament (1 Samuel 13-31, Numbers 11-12, 1 Kings 17-18) (Supplement
Series,

7), Kirsten Nielsens Yahweh: Prosecutor

of the

and

Investigation

Prophetic Lawsuit

(Rl4b-Pattern)

Judge. An (Supplement

Series,8),

and Patrick D.

Miller Jrs, Genesis 1-11: Studies in

Structure and Theme

(Supplement Series, 9).

Potential contributors of monographs for the Supplement Series invited to correspond with the editors at an early stage in the preparation of their typescript.
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