Contents: The Amarna period / William H. Stiebing, Jr. -- The role of the peasant in the Amarna period / John M. Halligan -- Early Israel and the Canaanite socio-economic system / Norman K. Gottwald -- Ancient Palestinian peasant movements and the formation of premonarchic Israel / Marvin L. Chaney -- Ancient Israel's hyphenated history / George E. Mendenhall.