Kline's view of the suzerain-vassal treaty structure

Kline believes that the canon of Scripture is based upon the suzerian-vassal treaty.  As such, the covenant and by extension, all of Scripture is given to man in the form of the Ancient Near East suzarain-vassal treaty.  The suzarain-vassal treaty is comprised of the preamble, or proclomation of who the king is, followed by an historical prologue, or what has theking done, then the stipulations of what is required to maintain the covenant, along with the blessings, cursings and ratification of the covenant.  Finally, the succesion or protection of the covenant to be handed down to future generations.  Kline views all of Scripture through this framework of God as the great king, suzerain and the covenant community as the vassal.