S.I.S. Review

Vol. IV No. 4 Spring 1980

Contents

Focus: Aspects of Catastrophism The Gordon Atwater Affair Broken Reeds	73
DR IMMANUEL VELIKOVSKY: Tributes	78
Forum: Letters	82
Horizons	82
Bookshelf	87
WAL THORNHILL: Venus - An Interim Report	93
HYAM MACCOBY: The Queen of Sheba and the Song of Songs	98
TOM CHETWYND: A Possible Reference to King David in Ugaritic Literature	101
GEOFFREY GAMMON: Bronze Age Destructions in the Near East	104
Extra -- Jupiter's Magnetic Field and Io's Volcanoes	108
T. GOLD: Electrical Origin of the Outbursts on Io	109
E.M. DROBYSHEVSKY: The Magnetic Field of Jupiter and the Volcanism and Rotation of the Galilean Satellites	111
Editor: R. M. Lowery 11, Adcott Road Acklam Middlesbrough Cleveland TS5 7ER Associate Editor: Brian Moore Geoffrey Gammon Martin Sieff Assistant Editors: Peter James 37 Gosberton Road, Balham, London S.W.12 COVER ILLUSTRATION: The planet Jupiter, as seen by Voyager I from 20,000,000 km on 13th February 1980. The satellite Io is transiting the Red Spot; Europa is further to the right. Copyright (c) 1980 Society for Interdisciplinary Studies ISSN 0308-3276