Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Part I -- Scholar and Teacher: A Sketch -- Part II: HISTORY -- Shifting the Gaze: Historiographic Constraints in Chronicles and their Implications -- A Projection for Israelite Historiography: With a Comparison Between Qohelet and Nagarjuna -- Did Saulide-Davidic Rivalry Resurface in Early Persian Yehud? -- The Beginning of the Regnal Year in Israel and Judah -- The Year of Josiah's Death: 609 or 610 BCE? -- The Rise of the House of Jehu -- Solomon at Megiddo? -- Šamši-ilu and the Realpolitik of Israel and Aram-Damascus in the Eighth Century BCE -- The Typology of the Davidic Covenant -- Absalom's Daughter: An Essay in Vestige Historiography -- Part III: ARCHAEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY -- New Evidence on Edom in the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods -- Assyrian Influence and Changing Technologies at Tall Jawa, Jordan -- The Intellectual, the Archaeologist and the Bible -- The Geography of the Exodus -- Part IV: MANUSCRIPTS AND EPIGRAPHY -- The Qumran Scrolls and Textual Reconstruction -- Mesha' and Syntax -- Index of References -- Index of Authors -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.