Thomas L. Thompson is Professor of Old Testament at the University of Copenhagen.

• 1. Thomas L. Thompson, Introduction: Can A History of Ancient Jerusalem and Palestine be Written? 2. Michael Prior, A Moral Reading of the Bible in Jerusalem. 3. Niels Peter Lemche, "House of David." 4. Margreet Steiner, Expanding Borders: The Development of Jerusalem in the Iron Age. 5. Sara Mandell, Rome, Syria and the Jerusalem High Priest: The International bases of the High Priest's Rule of the Jerusalem City-Sate: 175--63 BCE. 6. John Strange, Herod and Jerusalem - the Hellenization of an Oriental City. 7. Firas Sawwah, Jerusalem in the Time of the Kingdom of Judaea. 8. Lester Grabbe, Ethnic Groups in Jerusalem. 9. Philip Davies, From Zion to Zion: Jerusalem in the Dead Sea Scrolls. 10. Thomas M. Bolin, The Making of the Holy City: On the Foundations of Jerusalem in the Hebrew Bible. 11. Ingrid Hjelm, Brothers Fighting Brothers: Jewish and Samaritan Ethnocentrism in Tradition and History. 12. Thomas L. Thompson, Holy War at the Center of Biblical Theology: Shalom and the Cleansing of Jerusalem. 13. David Gunn, "Next Year in Jerusalem": Bible, Identity, and Myth on the Web. 14. Keith Whitelam, Imagining Jerusalem.