Lukasz Niesiolowski-Spano is Assistant Professor in the Institute of History, University of Warsaw. Chiara Periholds a PhD in Hebrew Studies from the University of Turin and she currently works for Jesuit Refugee Service. Jim West is Professor of Biblical Studies at the Quartz Hill School of Theology, Adjunct Professor of Bible at the Philippine Baptist Seminary, and Pastor of Petros Baptist Church, Petros, Tennessee.

• Editorial Preface Preface Thomas L. Thompson, University of Copenhagen 1. G. Garbini and the Poetry of Leah Goldberg Francesco Bianchi, University of Turin 2. "To Each His Own Job." On Job 42:1-6 Thomas Bolin, St Norbert College 3. The Siloam Tunnel Revisited Philip Davies, University of Sheffield 4. Hos 2:2 and the Dating of the Book of Hosea Giovanni Deiana, Pontifical Urbanian University 5. Beyond Garbini's Anti-Mosaic Pentateuch: Nehushtan as Literary Tie between the Torah and the Historical Books Philippe Guillaume, University of Berne 6. "When Dreams Come True": Jerusalem/Hierosolyma and Jewish Nationalism in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods Ingrid Hjelm, University of Copenhagen 7. The Same Old Story Niels Peter Lemche, University of Copenhagen 8. Toponymy Riddles Mario Liverani, University of Rome "La Sapienza" 9. Dividing the image of God: the creation of man and woman in Genesis Caterina Moro, Independent scholar 10. Farewell to the 'Blind and Lame' (2 Sam. 5:6-10) Lukasz Niesiolowski- Spano 11. From Moses to the Essenes Etiene Nodet, Ecole Biblique 12. A view from the West: The relationship between Phoenicia and "colonial" worlds in the Persian period Ida Oggiano, Pontificio Istituto Biblico and Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico 13. A couple of stone disks or simply a pair of disks? About the Hebrew word obnayim (Exodus 1:16Jeremiah 18:3) Fabrizio Pennacchietti, University of Turin 14. Jonah and the triffild. A suggestion for the qiqayon Chiara Peri 15. On Finding Myth and History in the Bible Emanuel Pfoh, National University of La Plata 16. "Historical" Israel and "biblical" Israel, or ethnicity as a symbol? Gian Luigi Prato, Universita degli Studi di Roma Tre 17. Ethnicity and the Bible: Multiple Judaisms Thomas L. Thompson 18. Correspondence Jim West