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New, in the pages of Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture<\/em>:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWhy Did Northern Israel Fall to the Assyrians?\u00a0A Weberian Proposal\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n It\u2019s Friday, after all.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThis article is centered on possible causes for the fall of Israel and, secondarily, Judah. The topic is not new. The very destruction of these ancient kingdoms may be the cause for the production of much of the Biblical literature that drives our interpretive enterprise. My proposal is that Max Weber\u2019s socio-political theories of power and domination, sometimes called the tripartite classification of authority, may provide a fruitful lens by which to understand some of the reasons Judah persisted for more than a century after the fall of Israel. Specifically, I wish to investigate whether the lack of routinization of charismatic authority was a contributing factor in Israel\u2019s fall.\u201d \u00a0(Taylor Halverson<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n ***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Incidentally, the Interpreter Foundation has existed now for 329.5 weeks. \u00a0This is the 328th consecutive Friday on which the Foundation has published at least one article in its journal. \u00a0Not bad, really. \u00a0And we\u2019ve been able to do this \u2014 and many, many other things \u2014 despite the fact that, at least according to one vocal anonymous critic who has no access to our bank records, we\u2019re in a dire financial crisis and, indeed, pretty much on the verge of death.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n For the record, we\u2019re not in a dire financial crisis. \u00a0Nowhere near.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Still, if you have enjoyed or benefited from anything that we\u2019ve done, and if you would like to contribute to our ongoing operations, which continue because of generous gifts from many people of time, volunteer labor, and, yes, money \u2014 we\u2019re not exactly lazing around, living off of the interest from a vast endowment while liveried servants waft us with peacock-feather fans \u2014 you can do so in various ways that are outlined here<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n