'This collection of essays contains a wide range of topics reflecting the depth and breadth of interest of the scholar in whose honour they were commissioned' - Kevin J. Cathcart.

• Preface; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Part I; Texts And Themes In The Bible; John Day; Does the Old Testament refer to Sacred Prostitution and did it actually exist in Anclent Israel? Robert P. Gordon; The Philistines: the Ideological Foe; Henry Wansbrough; The Finale of the Davidic Succession Narrative?; Hugh G.M. Williamson; The Formation of Isaiah 2.6-22; John Barton; The Day of Yahweh in the Minor Prophets; Charles Conroy; The 'Four Servant Poems' in Second Isaiah in the Light of Recent Redaction-Historical Studies; John A. Emerton; Some Problems in Psalm 88.16; Part II; Texts And Themes In The Ancient Versions; Kund Jeppesen; 'The Lord God has spoken, who can but prophesy?' From Osee to Jonas in the Septuagint; Carmel Mccarthy; Samaritan Pentateuch Readings in Deuteronomy; Sebastian P. Brock; A Neglected Revision of the Peshitta Psalter; Celine Mangan; Wisdom, Torah and Creation in Targumic Literature; Martin Mcnamara; The Colophon of Codex Neofiti 1: The Scribe Menahem and the Roman Medical Family of Manuele; Part III; Interpretation And History Of The Bible; Andrew D.H. Mayes; Marx, Weber and the Religion of Ancient Israel; John R. Bartlett; Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Problem of Israelite; Historiography; John J. Collins; The Politics of Biblical Interpretation; Gerard J. Norton; Dahood's Commentary on the Psalms: A Review of an Academic Grandparent's Work after Thirty Years; Michael Maher; 'A Lily among Thoms': Cant. 2:2 in the Latin Exegetical; Tradition; Part IV; Near Eastern Philology And History; Wilfred G.E. Watson; Akkadian Loanwords in Ugaritic: The Hippiatric Texts; Manfred Kropp; Ethiopic Names in Sabaic and the Question of matres lectionis; in Epigraphic South Arabian; G. Rex Smith; Classical Arabic Pattern Fa(a411 Revisited; Reinhard Pummer; Foot-Soldiers of the Byzantines or Spies for the Muslims? The Role of the Samaritans in the Muslim Conquest of Palestine; Part V; Near Eastern Notables; C. Edmund Bosworth; William Lithgow of Lanark's travels in Hungary, Transylvania; and Poland, 1616; John F. Healey; 'Sicherheit des Auges': the Contribution to Semitic Epigraphy; of the Explorer Julius Euting (1839-1913); Graham I. Davies; Fresh Evidence on E.H. Palmer's Travels from Cambridge Libraries; David Morray; A Late-Victorian Consul in the Near East: John Dickson (1846-1906)