See Hershel Shanks, “Israel’s Emergence in Canaan—BR Interviews Norman Gottwald,” Bible Review (BR), October 1989, P. Kyle McCarter, “A Major New Introduction to the Bible—Norman Gottwald’s Sociological-Literary Perspective,” BR, Summer 1986 and Betnhard W. Anderson, “Mendenhall Disavows Paternity,” BR, Summer 1986.