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H.G.M. Williamson: Introduction J.W. Rogerson: Setting the Scene: A Brief Outline of Histories of Israel Keith W. Whitelam: Setting the Scene: A Response to John Rogerson Hans M. Barstad: The History of Ancient Israel: What Directions Should We Take? Philip R. Davies: Biblical Israel in the Ninth Century? Lester L. Grabbe: Some Recent Issues in the Study of the History of Israel T.P. Wiseman: Classical History: A Sketch, with Three Artefacts Chase F. Robinson: Early Islamic History: Parallels and Problems Amélie Kuhrt: Ancient Near Eastern History: The Case of Cyrus the Great of Persia David Ussishkin: Archaeology of the Biblical Period: On Some Questions of Methodology and Chronology of the Iron Age Amihai Mazar: The Spade and the Text: The Interaction between Archaeology and Israelite History Relating to the 10th-9th centuries BCE Christoph Uehlinger: Neither Eyewitnesses, nor Windows to the Past, but Valuable Testimony in its own Right M.J. Geller: Akkadian Sources of the Ninth Century K. Lawson Younger, Jr.: Neo-Assyrian and Israelite History in the Ninth Century: The Role of Shalmaneser III André Lemaire: West Semitic Inscriptions and 9th Century BCE Ancient Israel Marc Zvi Brettler: Method in the Application of Biblical Source Material to Historical Writing (With Particular Reference to the Ninth Century BCE) Graeme Auld: Reading Kings on the Divided Monarchy: What Sort of Narrative? Rainer Albertz: Social History of Ancient Israel Bernard S. Jackson: Law in the 9th Century: Jehoshaphat's 'Judicial Reform' Nadav Na'aman: The Northern Kingdom in the Late Tenth-Ninth Centuries BCE