Biblical narratives, archaeology, and historicity : essays in honour of Thomas L. Thompson / edited by Lukasz Niesiolowski-Spanò and Emanuel Pfoh.

Introduction /
Łukasz Niesiołowski-Spanò, Emanuel Pfoh -- The city of David as a palimpsest /
Margreet L. Steiner -- Living in the past? Keeping up-to-date in Ancient Near Eastern Studies / Raz Kletter -- What peolpe want to believe: or fighting against 'cultural memory' /
Niels Peter Lemche -- The need for a comprehensive sociology of knowledge of Biblical and Archaeological studies of the Southern Levant / Emanuel Pfoh -- The Abraham and Esau-Jacob stories in the context of the Maccabean period / Łukasz Niesiołowski-Spanò -- Tell Baläta (Shechem): An Archaeological and historical reassessment / Hamdan Taha, Gerrit van der Kooij -- 'Solomon' (Shalmaneser III) and the emergence of Judah as an independent kingdom / Russell Gmirkin -- On the pre-exilic gap between Israel and Judah / Etienne Nodet -- Perceptions of Israel's past in qumran writings: between myth and historiography / Jesper Høgenhaven -- Is Josephus's John the Baptist passage a chronologically dislocated story of the death of Hyrcanus II? / Gregory L. Doudna -- Thompson's Jesus: staring down the wishing well / Jim West -- The Qur'an as biblical rewriting / Mogens Müller -- The food of life and the food of death in texts from the Old Testament and the Ancient Near East / Ingrid Hjelm -- A gate in Gaza: an essay on the reception of tall tales / Jack M. Sasson -- Deborah's topical song: remarks on the Gattung of judges / Bob Becking -- How Jerusalem's Temple was aligned to Moses' tabernacle:
abour the historical power of an invented myth / Rainer Albertz -- Can the book of Nehemiah be used as an historical source, and in so, of what? / Lisbeth S. Fried -- Chronicles' reshaping of memories of ancestors populating Genesis / Ehud Ben Zvi -- The book of proverbs and Hesiod's Works and Days / Philippe Wajdenbaum -- The villain 'Samaritan': The Sämiri as the other Moses in Qur'anic exegesis / Joshua Sabih.