discovered in the areas of the documents, the ceremonies of ratification, the modes of administration, and, most basically of course, the suzerain-servant relationship itself. On the biblical side the resemblance is most apparent in the accounts of the theocratic covenant as instituted through the mediatorship of Moses at Sinai and as later renewed under both Moses and Joshua. Of most interest for the subject of this chapter is the fact that the pattern of the suzerainty treaty can be traced in miniature