The House of the Father as Fact and Symbol: Patrimonialism in Ugarit and the Ancient Near East, by J. David Schloen, 2001. (Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant 2.). Cambridge (MA): Harvard Semitic Museum in assoc. with Eisenbrauns; ISBN 1-57506-907-5 hardback US$57.50; xv + 414 pp., ills