Part 1: History and Historiography
Shechem in Deuteronomy: A Seemingly Hidden Polemic Yairah Amit
Menachem’s Massacre of Tiphsah: At the Crossroads of Grammar and Memory (2 Kings 15:16) Bob Becking
Male Royals and Their Ethnically Foreign Mothers: The Implications for Textual Politics Athalya Brenner-Idan
Images of Tranquility in the Book of Judges Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher
When the Foreign Monarch Speaks about the Israelite Tabernacle Gary N. Knoppers
Putting the Neighbors in Their Place: Memory and Mindscape in Deuteronomy 2:10–12, 20–23 William Morrow
Righteous Kings, Evil Kings, and Israel’s Non-Monarchic Identity: Different Voices on the Failure of Israelite Kingship in the Book of Kings Reinhard Müller
A Request for Blessing and Prosperity in an Inscription from Samaria Nadav Naʾaman
Solomon’s Administrative Districts: A Scholarly Illusion Richard D. Nelson
Conceptions of the Past and Sociocultural Grounding in the Books of Samuel Frank H. Polak
“In the House of Judah, My Father’s House”: The Character of Joab in the Book of Chronicles Kenneth A. Ristau
Chronicles and Utopia: Likely Bedfellows? Ian Douglas Wilson
Part 2: Prophecy and Prophetic Books
When God’s Voice Breaks Through: Shifts in Revelatory Rhetoric in Zechariah 1–8 Mark J. Boda
The Chronological Limits of Reshaping Social Memory in the Presence of Written Sources: The Case of Ezekiel in Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Yehud Philippe Guillaume
Who’s Speaking? On Whose Behalf? The Book of Haggai from the Perspective of Identity Formation in the Persian Period Louis Jonker
Mind the Gap: Reading Isa 39:8–Isa 40:1 within Early Second Temple Judah Sonya K. Kostamo
The nāśîʾ and the Future of Royalty in Ezekiel Christophe Nihan
These Seventy Years: Intertextual Observations and Postulations on Jeremiah and the Twelve James Nogalski
The Metaprophetic God of Jonah Carey Walsh
Part 3: Methods, Observations, (Re)Readings
Some Sort of “Chronistic” Additions to the Torah? New Perspectives in the Formation of Exod 19–20 Rainer Albertz
Sites of Memory and the Presence of the Past in Ehud Ben Zvi’s “Social Memory” Kåre Berge
The Jerusalem Literary Circle Philip R. Davies
The Metaphor of Torah as a Life-Giving Well in the Book of Deuteronomy Diana V. Edelman
The Ritual of Reading and the Dissemination of Prophetic and Other Authoritative Texts in Second Temple Judaism Michael H. Floyd
History and the Nature of Cultural Memory: The Alamo and the “Masada Complex” Lester L. Grabbe
Between the Words I Write Francis Landy
Hybrids, Purification, and Multidirectional Memory in Ezra–Nehemiah Tim Langille
Is Ehud also among the Prophets? Prophecy in the Book of Judges Christoph Levin
Mythoprophetics: Some Thoughts James R. Linville
More Geminate Ballast and Clustering in Biblical Hebrew Scott B. Noegel
Blurred Boundaries in the Lot Story P. J. Sabo
Index of Authors
Index of Scripture
Index of Other Ancient Literature