Introduction / Hans Barstad
History and memory : some reflections on the memory debate in relation to the Hebrew Bible / Niels Peter Lemche
Postcolonial studies and the study of Israelite history / Nadav Naaman
Text and archaeology in a period of great decline : the contribution of the Amarna Letters to the debate on the historicity of Nehemiah's wall / Rainer Albertz
Secondary sources also deserve to be historically evaluated : the case of the united monarchy / Thomas L. Thompson
Reiterative narrative and the problem of the exile / André Lemaire
Hazor in the second half of the 10th century BCE : historiography, archaeology, and history / Mario Liveraini
The chronology of the biblical fairy-tale / Ehud Ben Zvi
The story of Micaiah, son of Imlah : what could the ancient intended readers learn from it? / Diana V. Edelman
Of priests and prophets and interpreting the past : the Egyptian HM-NTR and HRY-HBT and the Judahite nabi / Hugh G.M. Williamson
Welcome home / Oded Lipschits
Here is a man whose name is Ema? (Zechariah 6:12) / Bob Becking
Drought, hunger, and redistribution : a social-economic reading of Nehemiah 5 / Joseph Blenkinsopp
Footnotes to the rescript of Artaxerxes (Ezra 7:11-26) / Gary N. Knoppers
Aspects of Samaria's religious culture during the early Hellenistic period / E. Axel Knauf
Biblical references to Judean settlement in Eretz Israel (and beyond) in the late Persian and early Hellenistic periods / Philip R. Davies
The Hebrew canon and the origins of Judaism / George J. Brooke
What makes a text historical? : assumptions behind the classification of some Dead Sea Scrolls.
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The historian and the Bible : essays in honour of Lester L. Grabbe. ISBN 9780567202680. Published by T & T Clark in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
