Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Looking at history through literary glasses too / Yairah Amit -- To put one's neck under the yoke / Moshe Anbar -- Sic dicit dominus: Mari prophetic texts and the Hebrew Bible / Hans M. Barstad -- The return of the deity: iconic or aniconic? / Bob Becking -- Do the execration texts reflect an accurate picture of the contemporary settlement map of Palestine? / Amnon Ben-Tor -- Observations on Josiah's account in Chronicles and implications for reconstructing the worldview of the Chronicler / Ehud Ben Zvi -- Hezekiah and the Babylonian delegation: a critical reading of Isaiah 39:1-8 / J. Blenkinsopp -- A late synchronism between Ugarit and Emar / Yoram Cohen, Itamar Singer -- The origin of biblical Israel / Philip R. Davies -- The iconography of wisdom / Diana Edelman -- Observations on two inscriptions of Esarhaddon: Prism Nineveh A and the Letter to the God / I. Ephʻal, H. Tadmor -- The last Labayu: King Saul and the expansion of the first north Israelite territorial entity / Israel Finkelstein --

"The lying pen of the scribes"? Jeremiah and history / Lester L. Grabbe -- The wall of Jerusalem from a double perspective: Kings versus Chronicles / Sara Japhet -- Yhwh's rejection of the house built for his name: on the significance of anti-temple rhetoric in the Deuteronomistic History / Gary N. Knoppers -- On cash-boxes and finding or not finding books: Jehoash's and Josiah's decisions to repair the temple / Oded Lipschits -- Jerusalem in the 10th Century b.c.e.: the glass half full / Amihai Mazar -- A conversation with my critics: cultic image or aniconism in the First Temple? / Tryggve N. D. Mettinger -- The lady and the bull: remarks on the bronze plaque from Tel Dan / Tallay Ornan -- Three Hebrew seals from the Iron Age Tombs at Mamillah, Jerusalem / Ronny Reich, Benjamin Sass -- Realism and convention in the depiction of ancient drummers / Miriam Tadmor -- Sennacherib's campaign to Philistia and Judah: Ekron, Lachish, and Jerusalem / David Ussishkin -- The Deuteronomist: historian or redactor? from Simon to the present / John Van Seters -- A productive textual error in Isaiah 2:18-19 / H. G. M. Williamson -- The geography of the Borsippa Region / Ran Zadok.