Historian and the Bible: Essays in Honour of Lester L. Grabbe Book

List of Abbreviations

THE EDITORS 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 LIVERANI 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