Table of Contents

H.G.M. Williamson: Introduction
J.W. Rogerson: Setting the Scene: A Brief Outline of Histories of Israel
Keith W. Whitelam: Setting the Scene: A Response to John Rogerson
Hans M. Barstad: The History of Ancient Israel: What Directions Should We Take?
Philip R. Davies: Biblical Israel in the Ninth Century?
Lester L. Grabbe: Some Recent Issues in the Study of the History of Israel
T.P. Wiseman: Classical History: A Sketch, with Three Artefacts
Chase F. Robinson: Early Islamic History: Parallels and Problems
Amélie Kuhrt: Ancient Near Eastern History: The Case of Cyrus the Great of Persia
David Ussishkin: Archaeology of the Biblical Period: On Some Questions of Methodology and Chronology of the Iron Age
Amihai Mazar: The Spade and the Text: The Interaction between Archaeology and Israelite History Relating to the 10th-9th centuries BCE
Christoph Uehlinger: Neither Eyewitnesses, nor Windows to the Past, but Valuable Testimony in its own Right
M.J. Geller: Akkadian Sources of the Ninth Century
K. Lawson Younger, Jr.: Neo-Assyrian and Israelite History in the Ninth Century: The Role of Shalmaneser III
André Lemaire: West Semitic Inscriptions and 9th Century BCE Ancient Israel
Marc Zvi Brettler: Method in the Application of Biblical Source Material to Historical Writing (With Particular Reference to the Ninth Century BCE)
Graeme Auld: Reading Kings on the Divided Monarchy: What Sort of Narrative?
Rainer Albertz: Social History of Ancient Israel
Bernard S. Jackson: Law in the 9th Century: Jehoshaphat's 'Judicial Reform'
Nadav Na'aman: The Northern Kingdom in the Late Tenth-Ninth Centuries BCE

Reviews

[a] well-produced volume
*International Review of Biblical Studies*

For all its brevity, this elegantly written paper is a basic-and convincing-contribution to understanding 1/2 Kings.
*International Review of Biblical Studies*

This volume is a 'must read' for all who are interested in current debates concerning the history of Israel, especially ninth century, and the editor is to be congratulated on putting together such an excellent volume.
*J. Day, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament*

The contributions in this volume represent some of the most nuanced thinking currently available regarding the study of Israelite history, and the book engages many of the historical issues that will continue to stimulate and bedevil biblical scholars throughout the 21st century ... Williamson and the authors whose work appears in this volume are to be congratulated for their stimulating and useful contributions to a debate that will continue to rage, rationally or irrationally for many years to come.
*Brian R. Doak, Religion*