Article Title

Love vs. Hate: An Analysis of Helaman 15:1–4

Authors

David E. Bokovoy

Keywords

love, hate, Helaman, context, antiquity

Abstract

Few literary genres from the ancient world stand out so prominently as the Near Eastern vassal treaty. Scholars have shown that these political contracts formed between vassal kings and suzerain provided the conceptual background for the book of Deuteronomy. “The assumption is that Israel conceived of its relation to Yahweh as that of subject peoples to a world king and that they expressed this relationship in the concepts and formulas of the suzerainty treaty.”

Recommended Citation

Bokovoy, David E. (2002) "Love vs. Hate: An Analysis of Helaman 15:1–4," Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship: Vol. 22: No. 2, Article 3.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/insights/vol22/iss2/3