Contents -- Grabbe, Introduction -- Becking, David Between Ideology and Evidence -- Bartlett, Mercator in the Wilderness -- Dijkstra, Origins of Israel Between History and Ideology -- Grabbe, The Case of the Corrupting Consensus -- Van Grol, Three Hasidisms and Their Militant Ideologies -- Koster, The Old Testament as a Diachronic Corpus -- Mayes, Pharaoh Shishak's Invasion of Palestine and the Exodus from Egypt -- Middlemas, The Greek Esthers and the Search for History -- Na'aman, Does Archaeology Really Deserve the Status of a 'High Court'? -- Spronk, History and Prophecy in the Book of Judges -- Whitelam, Resisting the Past -- FIGURES AND MAPS -- Index of Authors -- Index of Textual References.