Smith (ancient history, Columbia U.) planned such a collection in 1972, but got caught up in other commitments and did not accomplish it before his death in 1991. The two volumes include about half of the papers he selected plus some written after 1972. Among the 20 topics in the first volume are Helios in Palestine, the shape of God and the humanity of gentiles, Palestinian Judaism in the first century, east Mediterranean law codes of the early iron age, the present state of Old Testament studies (1969), and the common theology of the ancient near east. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.