Contents -- Preface -- Women's Rites of Passage in Ancient Israel -- Three Case Studies (Birth, Coming of Age, and Death) -- Susan Ackerman -- The Relevance of Hebrew Name Seals for Reconstructing Judahite and Israelite Family Religion -- Rainer Albertz -- The Household as Sacred Space -- Beth Alpert Nakhai -- Philistine Cult and Household Religion according to the Archaeological Record -- David Ben-Shlomo -- Anomalies in the Archaeological Record -- Evidence for Domestic and Industrial Cults in Central Jordan -- P. M. Michèle Daviau -- The Judean "Pillar-Base Figurines" -- Mothers or "Mother-Goddesses"? -- William G. Dever -- The House and the World -- The Israelite House as a Microcosm -- Avraham Faust and Shlomo Bunimovitz -- Healing Rituals at the Intersection of Family and Society -- Erhard S. Gerstenberger -- Family Religion from a Northern Levantine Perspective -- Timothy P. Harrison -- Horses and Riders and Riders and Horses -- R. Kletter and K. Saarelainen -- Feast Days and Food Ways -- Religious Dimensions of Household Life -- Carol Meyers -- The Roles of Kin and Fictive Kin in Biblical Representations of Death Ritual -- Saul M. Olyan -- A Typology of Iron Age Cult Places -- Rüdiger Schmitt -- The Textual and Sociological Embeddedness of Israelite Family Religion -- Who Were the Players? Where Were the Stages? -- Ziony Zevit -- QuickMark.