[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

• IntroductionSetting the Scene: A Brief Outline of Histories of IsraelSetting the Scene: A Response to John RogersonThe History of Ancient Israel: What Directions Should We Take?Biblical Israel in the Ninth Century?Some Recent Issues in the Study of the History of IsraelClassical History: A Sketch, with Three ArtefactsEarly Islamic History: Parallels and ProblemsAncient Near Eastern History: The Case of Cyrus the Great of PersiaArchaeology of the Biblical Period: On Some Questions of Methodology and Chronology of the Iron AgeThe Spade and the Text: The Interaction between Archaeology and Israelite History Relating to the 10th-9th centuries BCENeither Eyewitnesses, nor Windows to the Past, but Valuable Testimony in its own RightAkkadian Sources of the Ninth CenturyNeo-Assyrian and Israelite History in the Ninth Century: The Role of Shalmaneser IIIWest Semitic Inscriptions and 9th Century BCE Ancient IsraelMethod in the Application of Biblical Source Material to Historical Writing (With Particular Reference to the Ninth Century BCE)Reading Kings on the Divided Monarchy: What Sort of Narrative?Social History of Ancient IsraelLaw in the 9th Century: Jehoshaphat's 'Judicial Reform'The Northern Kingdom in the Late Tenth-Ninth Centuries BCE

[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

• IntroductionSetting the Scene: A Brief Outline of Histories of IsraelSetting the Scene: A Response to John RogersonThe History of Ancient Israel: What Directions Should We Take?Biblical Israel in the Ninth Century?Some Recent Issues in the Study of the History of IsraelClassical History: A Sketch, with Three ArtefactsEarly Islamic History: Parallels and ProblemsAncient Near Eastern History: The Case of Cyrus the Great of PersiaArchaeology of the Biblical Period: On Some Questions of Methodology and Chronology of the Iron AgeThe Spade and the Text: The Interaction between Archaeology and Israelite History Relating to the 10th-9th centuries BCENeither Eyewitnesses, nor Windows to the Past, but Valuable Testimony in its own RightAkkadian Sources of the Ninth CenturyNeo-Assyrian and Israelite History in the Ninth Century: The Role of Shalmaneser IIIWest Semitic Inscriptions and 9th Century BCE Ancient IsraelMethod in the Application of Biblical Source Material to Historical Writing (With Particular Reference to the Ninth Century BCE)Reading Kings on the Divided Monarchy: What Sort of Narrative?Social History of Ancient IsraelLaw in the 9th Century: Jehoshaphat's 'Judicial Reform'The Northern Kingdom in the Late Tenth-Ninth Centuries BCE