Bibliography

Contents

Introduction

Dictionaries

Journals

General Studies

Sources

Collections of Sources

Josephus

Amarna Letters

Merenptah Inscription

Mesha Inscription

Dan Inscription

Samaria Ostraca

Arad Ostraca

Siloam Inscription

Lachish Letters

Babylonian Chronicle

Elephantine Papyri

Seals and Stamps

History in Israel and the Ancient Near East

History of the Ancient Near East

Hyksos

Habiru-Hebrew

The Philistines and the Sea People

Palestine before Israel

Israel, Palestine, and the Ancient Near East

Archaeology of Israel

Encyclopedias

Studies

History of Israel

History Writing in Ancient Israel

General Works and Collections

Chronology

Geography and Historical Geography

Sociology–Society

Institutions

The Minimalist–Maximalist Controversy

Patriarchs

Exodus, Settlement of the Israelite Tribes, Period of the Judges

United Monarchy

The Hebrew Kingdoms

Exile

Restoration, Persian Period

Introduction

It is characteristic of the study of ancient Israel that much of the discussion takes place in connection with commentaries on the biblical books of the Old Testament. A list of relevant commentaries for all thirty-four volumes of the Old Testament would create a lack of balance of this bibliography and only partly be relevant to the lexicon presented here. Information about the biblical books and sources can be found in the general studies listed below. Otherwise, the bibliography puts special weight on monographs, including a number of seminal articles in scholarly journals listed here. As a general rule, the selection of books and articles is arbitrary and to a certain degree reflecting the position of the author of this dictionary, but I have tried to present a mixture of mainstream literature, conservative contributions, and contributions from the so-called school of minimalism at the forefront of the present discussion among biblical scholars.

Dictionaries

Freedman, David N., ed. The Anchor Bible Dictionary, 1-6. New York: Doubleday, 1992.

Görg, Manfred, and Bernhard Lang, eds. Neues Bibel-Lexikon, I-III. Zürich: Benziger, 1991-2001.

Journals

Biblica, Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute.

Biblical Archaeologist (now continued as Near Eastern Archaeology).

Biblical Archaeologist Review. Washington, D.C.: The Biblical Archaeology Society.

Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns.

Hadashot Arkheologiyot: Excavations and Surveys in Israel. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society.

Israel Exploration Journal. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society.

Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.

Journal of Biblical Literature. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature.

Journal of Near Eastern Studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Levant. London: Council for British Research in the Levant.

Near Eastern Archaeology. Boston: The American Schools of Oriental Research.

Palestine Exploration Quarterly. London: The Palestine Exploration Fund.

Revue Biblique. Paris: J. Gabalda.

Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament. Oslo: Taylor & Francis.

Tel Aviv. Tel Aviv: University of Tel Aviv: Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology.

Vetus Testamentum. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.

Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

General Studies

Baker, David W., and Bill T. Arnold. The Face of Old Testament Studies: A Survey of Contemporary Approaches. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 1999.

Clements, R. E., ed. The World of Ancient Israel: Sociological, Anthropological and Political Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Kee, Howard C., John Rogerson, Eric M. Meyers, and Anthony J. Saldarini, eds. The Cambridge Companion to the Bible. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Rogerson, John, and Philip Davies. The Old Testament World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Sources

Collections of Sources

Davies, G. I. Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions: Corpus and Concordance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Donner, Herbert, and Walter Röllig. Kanaanäische und aramäische Inschriften. Mit einem Beitrag von O. Rössler. I-III. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1962-1964.

Gibson, John C. L. Textbook of Syrian Semitic Inscriptions, I-III. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971-1982.

Gogel, Sandra Landis. A Grammar of Epigraphic Hebrew. SBL Resources for Biblical Study, 23. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998.

Hallo, William W., and K. Lawson Younger, eds. The Context of Scripture, I-III. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1997-2002.

Kaiser, Otto, ed. Texte aus dem Umwelt des Alten Testaments, I-III & Ergänzungsband. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 1981-2001.

Lemaire, André. Inscriptions hébraïques, I. Les ostraca. Littérature anciennes du Proche-Orient, 9. Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 1977.

Parker, Simon B., ed. Society of Biblical Literature Writings from the Ancient World:

1: Wente, Edward. Letters from Ancient Egypt. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990.

2: Hoffner, Harry A. Hittite Myths. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990.

3: Michalowski, Piotr. Letters from Early Mesopotamia. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993.

6: Roth, Martha T. Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor. 2nd ed. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997.

7: Beckman, Gary. Hittite Diplomatic Texts. 2nd ed. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999.

9: Parker, Simon B. Ugaritic Narrative Poetry. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997.

Pritchard, James B. Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament. 3rd ed. With a Supplement. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton, University Press, 1969.

Renz, Johannes. Handbuch der Althebräischen Epigraphik, I, II/1, III. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1995.

Josephus

The Jewish Antiquities, I-XX, in 10 volumes, translated by H. St. J. Thackeray, Ralph Marcus, Allen Wikgren, and L. H. Feldman. The Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: Heineman, 1930-1965.

Amarna Letters

Knudtzon, J. A. Die El-Amarna Tafeln mit Einleitung und Erläuterungen herausgegeben. Anmerkungen und Register bearbeitet von Otto Weber und Erich Ebeling. Vorderasiatische Bibliothek. Neudruck der Ausgabe 1915. Aalen: Otto Zeller Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1964.

Liverani, Mario. Le lettere di el-Amarna. Testi del Vicino oriente antico, 3:1-2. Brescia, 1998.

Moran, William L. The Amarna Letters. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

———. Amarna Studies. Collected Writings. Edited by John Huehnergaard and Shlomo Izre’el. Harvard Semitic Museum Publications, 54. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2003.

Rainey, Anson F. El Amarna Tablets 359-379. Supplement to J. A. Knudtzon, Die El-Amarna Tafeln. Alter Orient Und Altes Testament, 8. Kevalaer and Neukirchen-Vluyn: Verlag Butzon & Bercker and Neukirchener Verlag des Erziehungsvereins, 1970.

Merenptah Inscription

Ahlström, Gösta W., and Diana Edelman. “Merneptah’s Israel.” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 44 (1985): 59-61.

Engel, Hartmut. “Die Siegesstele des Mernephtah.” Biblica 60 (1979): 373-399.

Fecht, G. “Die Israelstele: Gestalt und Aussage.” In Manfred Görg, ed. Fontes atque pontes: Eine Festgabe für Hellmut Brunner. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1983:106-38.

Hjelm, Ingrid, and Thomas L. Thompson. “The Victory Song of Merneptah, Israel and the People of Palestine.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 27 (2002): 3-18.

Hornung, Erik. “Die Israelstele des Mernephtah.” In Manfred Görg, ed. Fontes atque pontes: Eine Festgabe für Hellmut Brunner. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1983: 224-33.

Singer, Itamar. “Merneptah’s Campaign to Canaan and the Egyptian Occupation of the Southern Coastal Plain in the Ramesside Period.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 269 (1988): 1-10.

Spiegelberg, W. “Der Siegeshymnus des merneptah auf der Flinders Petrie-Stele.” Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 34 (1896): 1-25.

Stager, Lawrence E. “Merneptah, Israel and Sea Peoples: New Light on an Old Relief.” Eretz-Israel 18 (1985): 59-64.

Mesha Inscription

Dearman, J. Andrew. Studies in the Mesha Inscription and Moab. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989.

Na’aman, Nadab. “King Mesha and the Foundation of the Moabite Monarchy.” Israel Exploration Journal 47 (1997): 83-92.

Smelik, K. A. “King Mesha’s Inscription: Between History and Fiction.” In Converting the Past: Studies in Ancient Israelite and Moabite Historiography. Oudtestamentische Studien, 28. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992: 59-92.

Thompson, Thomas L. “A Testimony of the Good King: Reading the Mesha Stele.” In L. L. Grabbe, ed. European Seminar in Historical Method, 5. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press (forthcoming).

Dan Inscription

Athas, George. The Tell Dan Inscription: A Reappraisal and a New Interpretation. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series, 360/Copenhagen International Seminar, 12. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2003.

Becking, Bob, “Did Jehu Write the Tel Dan Inscription?” Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 13 (1999): 187-201.

Biran, Avraham, and Joseph Naveh. “An Aramaic Stele Fragment from Tel Dan.” Israel Exploration Journal 43 (1993): 81-98.

———. “The Tel Dan Inscription: A New Fragment.” Israel Exploration Journal 45 (1995): 1-18.

Cryer, Frederick H. “On the Recently-Discovered ‘House of David’ Inscription.” Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 8 (1994): 3-19.

———. “King Hadad.” Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 9 (1995): 223-35.

Garbini, Giovanni. “L’iscrizione aramaica di Tel Dan.” Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Anno CCCXCI (1994): 461-71.

Gmirkin, Russell. “Tool Slippage and the Tel Dan Inscription.” Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 16 (2002): 293-308.

Lemaire, André. “The Tel Dan Stela as a Piece of Royal Historiography.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 81 (1998): 3-14.

Lemche, Niels Peter. “Bemerkungen über einen Paradigmenwechsel aus Anlass einer neuentdeckten Inschrift.” In Manfred Weippert and Stefan Timm, eds. Meilenstein. Festgabe für Herbert Donner. Ägypten und Altes Testament, 30. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1995: 99-108.

———. “ ‘House of David’: The Tel Dan Inscriptions.” In Philip R. Davies and Thomas L. Thompson, eds. Jerusalem in History. Sheffield: Continuum, 2003 (forthcoming).

Lemche, Niels Peter, and Thomas L. Thompson. “Did Biran Kill David? The Bible in the Light of Archaeology.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 64 (1994): 3-22.

Wesselius, Jan-Wim. “The First Royal Inscription from Ancient Israel: The Tel Dan Inscription Reconsidered.” Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 13 (1999): 163-86.

Samaria Ostraca

Noth, Martin. “Das Krongut der israelitischen Könige und seine Verwaltung.” Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 50 (1927): 211-44 (reprinted in Martin Noth, Aufsätze zur biblischen Landes- und Altertumskunde. Herausgegeben von Hans Walter Wolff, I-II. Neukirchen: Neukirchener Verlag, 1971: 159-82).

Rainey, Anson F. “The Samaria Ostraca in the Light of Fresh Evidence.” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 99 (1967): 32-41.

Reisner, George Andrew, Clarence Fisher, and David Gordon Lyon. Harvard Excavations at Samaria, 1-2. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1924.

Shea, William H. “The Date and Significance of the Samaria Ostraca.” Israel Exploration Journal 27 (1977): 16-27.

Arad Ostraca

Aharoni, Yohanan. Arad Inscriptions. Ed. Anson F. Rainey. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1981.

Pardee, Dennis. “Letters from Tel Arad.” Ugarit-Forschungen 10 (1978): 289-336.

Siloam Inscription

Hendel, Ronald. “The Date of the Siloam Inscription: A Rejoinder to Rogerson and Davies.” Biblical Archaeologist 59 (1996): 233-37.

Rogerson, John, and Philip R. Davies. “Was the Siloam Tunnel Built by Hezekiah?” Biblical Archaeologist 59 (1996): 138-49.

Sasson, V. “The Siloam Tunnel Inscription.” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 114 (1982): 111-17.

Lachish Letters

Cross, Frank Moore. “A Literate Soldier: Lachish Letter III.” In Ann Kort and Scott Morschauser, eds. Biblical and Related Studies Presented to Samuel Iwry. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1985: 41-47.

Torczyner, Harry. Lachish I: The Lachish Letters. London: Oxford University Press, 1938.

Vaux, Roland de. “Les ostraca de lachish.” Revue Biblique 48 (1939): 181-206.

Babylonian Chronicle

Wiseman, Dennis J. Chronicles of Chaldean Kings (626-556 B.C.) in the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1956.

Elephantine Papyri

Porten, B. Archives from Elephantine. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968.

Seals and Stamps

Avigad, Nahman, and Benjamin Sass. Corpus of West Semitic Stamp Seals. Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Israel Exploration Society, and Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, 1997.

History in Israel and the Ancient Near East

Barr, James. History and Ideology in the Old Testament: Biblical Studies at the End of a Millennium. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Boshoff, Willem, Eben Scheffler, and Izak Spangenberg. Ancient Israelite Literature in Context. Pretoria: Protea Book House, 2000.

Dentan, R. C., ed. The Idea of History in the Ancient Near East. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1955 (reprint Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns 1983).

Kuhrt, Amélie. “Israelite and Near Eastern Historiography.” In A. Lemaire and M. Sæbø, eds. Congress Volume Oslo 1998. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, 80. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2000: 257-79.

Lemche, Niels Peter. Die Vorgeschichte Israels. Von den Anfängen bis zum Ausgang des 13. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. Biblische Enzyklopädie, 1. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1996 (Prelude to Israel’s Past: Background and Beginnings of Israelite History and Identity. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, 1998).

Liverani, Mario. “Memorandum on the Approach to Historiographic Texts.” Orientalia n.s. 42 (1973): 178-94.

Long, V. Philip, David W. Baker, and Gordon J. Wenham, eds. Windows into Old Testament History: Evidence, Argument, and the Crisis of “Biblical Israel.” Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2002.

Thompson, Thomas L. The Early History of the Israelite People. From the Written and Archaeological Sources. Studies in the History of the Ancient Near East IV. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992.

———. The Bible in History. How Writers Create a Past. London: Jonathan Cape, 1999 (N. American edition: The Mythic Past: Biblical Archaeology and the Myth of Israel. New York: Basic Books, 1999).

Van Seters, John. In Search of History. Historiography in the Ancient World and the Origins of Biblical History. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1983 (reprint Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1997).

———. Prologue to History: The Yahwist as Historian in Genesis. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992.

———. The Life of Moses: The Yahwist as Historian in Exodus-Numbers. Kampen: Kok Pharos, 1994.

Younger, K. Lawson. Ancient Conquest Accounts: A Study in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical History Writing. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series, 98. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1990.

History of the Ancient Near East

Bierbrier, Morris L. Historical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt. Historical Dictionaries of Ancient Civilizations and Historical Eras, No. 1. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 1999.

Boardman, John, I. E. S. Edwards, H. G. L. Hammond, and E. Sollberger. The Cambridge Ancient History. III, 1-2. 2nd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Boardman, John, H. G. L. Hammond, D. M. Lewis, and M. Ostwald. The Cambridge Ancient History. IV. 2nd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Briant, Pierre. Histoire de l’empire Perse de Cyrus à Alexandre. Paris: Fayard, 1996 (From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2002).

Cassin, Elena, Jean Bottéro, and Jean Vercoutter, eds. Die altorientalischen Reiche 1: Vom Paläolithicum bis zur Mitte des 2. Jahrtausends. Fischer Weltgeschichte 2. Frankfurt a.M.: Fischer Bücherei, 1965.

———. Die altorientalischen Reiche 2: Das Ende des 2. Jahrtausends. Fischer Weltgeschichte 3: Frankfurt a.M.: Fischer Bücherei, 1966.

———. Die altorientalischen Reiche 3. Die erste Hälfte des 1. Jahrtausends. Fischer Weltgeschichte 4. Frankfurt a.M.: Fischer Bücherei, 1967.

Edwards, I. E. S., C. J. Gadd, and N. G. L. Hammond, eds. The Cambridge Ancient History. I, i-ii and II, i-ii. 3rd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970-1975.

Grimal, Nicolas. A History of Ancient Egypt. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.

Klengel, Horst, ed. Kulturgeschichte des alten Vorderasien. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1989.

Kuhrt, Amélie: The Ancient Near East c. 3000-330 BC, I-II. London: Routledge, 1995.

Leick, Gwendolyn. Historical Dictionary of Mesopotamia. Historical Dictionaries of Ancient Civilizations and Historical Eras, 9. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 2003.

Liverani, Mario. “The Collapse of the Near Eastern Regional System at the End of the Bronze Age. The Case of Syria.” In W. Rowlands, M. T. Larsen and K. Kristiansen, eds. Centre and Periphery in the Ancient World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987: 66-73.

———. Antico Oriente. Storia, Societa, economia. Rome: Editio Laterza, 1988.

Sasson, Jack M., ed. Civilizations of the Ancient Near East I-IV. New York: Simon & Schuster/Macmillan, 1995.

Snell, Daniel C. Life in the Ancient Near East 3100-332 B.C.E New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997.

Trigger, Bruce G. Ancient Egypt: A Social History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Hyksos

Beckerath, Jürgen von. Untersuchungen zur politischen Geschichte der Zweiten Zwischenzeit in Ägypten. Ägyptologische Forschungen Glückstadt: J. J. Augustin, 1964.

Bietak, Manfred. Avaris the Capital of the Hyksos: Recent Excavations at Tell el-Daba. London: British Museum Press, 1996.

Van Seters, John. The Hyksos: A New Investigation. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1991.

Habiru-Hebrew

Bottéro, Jean. Le problème des Habiru à la 4e rencontre assyriologique internationale. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1954.

Greenberg, Moshe. The Hab/piru. New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1955.

Lemche, Niels Peter. “ ‘Hebrew’ as a National Name for Israel.” Studia Theologica 33 (1979): 1-23.

Loretz, Oswald. Habiru-Hebräer: Eine sozio-linguistische Studie über die Herkunft des Gentiliziums ‘ibrî vom Appellativum habiru. Beiheft zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentlischen Wissenschaft, 160. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1984.

Na’aman, Nadav. “Hapiru and Hebrews: The Transfer of a Social Term to the Literary Sphere.” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 45 (1986): 271-88.

The Philistines and the Sea People

Bunimowitz, Shlomo. “Problems in the ‘Ethnic’ Identification of the Philistine Material Culture.” Tel Aviv 17 (1990): 210-22.

Dothan, Trude. The Philistines and Their Material Culture. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1982.

Dothan, Trude, and Moshe Dothan. People of the Sea. New York: Macmillan, 1992.

Margalith, Othniel. The Sea Peoples in the Bible. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1994.

Noort, Ed. Die Seevölker in Palästina. Kampen: Kok Pharos, 1994.

Sandars, N. K. The Sea Peoples: Warriors of the Ancient Mediterranean 1250-1150 BC. London: Thames and Hudson, 1978.

Singer, Itamar. “Egyptians, Canaanites, and Philistines in the Period of the Emergence of Israel.” In Israel Finkelstein, and Nadav Na’aman eds. From Nomadism to Monarchy. Archaeological and Historical Aspects of Early Israel. Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1994: 282-338.

Palestine before Israel

Gerstenblith, P. The Levant at the Beginning of the Middle Bronze Age. American Schools of Oriental Research Dissertation Series, 5. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1983.

Kempinski, Aharon. Megiddo: A City-State and Royal Centre in North Israel. Munich: C. H. Beck, 1989.

Lemche, Niels Peter. The Canaanites and Their Land: The Tradition of the Canaanites. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, 110. 2nd ed. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999.

Marfoe, Leon. “The Integrative Transformation: Patterns of Socio-Political Organization in Southern Syria.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 234 (1979): 1-42.

Israel, Palestine, and the Ancient Near East

Bartlett, John R. Edom and the Edomites. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, 77. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1989.

Bienkowski, P., ed. Early Edom and Moab. The Beginning of the Iron Age in Southern Jordan. Sheffield Archaeological Monographs, 7. Sheffield: J. R. Collis, 1992.

Coogan, Michael D., ed. The Oxford History of the Biblical World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Dion, Paul.-E. Les Araméens à l’age du fér: histoire politique et structure sociales. Études Bibliques, nouvelle série, 34. Paris: J. Gabalda, 1997.

Edelman, Diana Vikander, ed. You Shall Not Abhor an Edomite for He is Your Brother: Edom and Seir in History and Tradition. Archaeology and Biblical Studies, 3. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995.

Ephal, Israel. The Ancient Arabs: Nomads on the Borders of the Fertile Crescent 9th-5th Centuries B.C. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1982.

Görg, Manfred. Die Beziehungen zwischen Israel dem alten Israel und Ägypten. Von den Anfängen bis zum Exil. Erträge der Forschung, 290. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1997.

Harden, Donald. The Phoenicians. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1971.

Heinz, Marlies. Altsyrien und Libanon. Geschichte, Wirtschaft und Kultur vom Neolithikum bis Nebukadnezar. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2002.

Helck, Wolfgang. Die Beziehungen Ägyptens zu Vorderasien im 3. und 2. Jahrtausend v. Chr. Ägyptologische Abhandlungen, 5. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1962 (2nd ed., 1971).

Heltzer, Michael. The Rural Community in Ancient Ugarit. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 1976.

Hoerth, Alfred J., Gerald L. Mattingly, and Edwin M. Yamauchi. Peoples of the Old Testament World. Cambridge: Lutterworth Press and Baker Books, 1996.

Hübner, Ulrich. Die Ammoniter. Untersuchungen zur Geschichte, Kultur und Religion eines transjordanischen Volkes im 1. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins, 16. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1993.

Kitchen, Kenneth A. The Third Intermediary Period in Egypt (1100-650 B.C.). Revised edition. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1995.

Klengel, Horst. Syria: 3000-300 BC. A Handbook of Political History. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1992.

Knauf, Ernst Axel. Ismael: Untersuchungen zur Geschichte Palästinas und Nordarabiens im 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr. 2., erweiterte Auflage. Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1989.

———. Midian. Untersuchungen zur Geschichte Palästinas und Nordarabiens am Ende des 2. Jahrtausends v. Chr. Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1988.

Malamat, Abraham. Mari and the Bible. Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East, 12. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998.

Moscati, Sabatino, ed. The Phoenicians. New York: Rizzoli, 2000.

Pitard, Wayne T. Ancient Damascus. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1987.

Redford, Donald B. Egypt and Canaan in the New Kingdom. Beer-Sheva IV. Beer-Sheba: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 1990.

———. Egypt, Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992.

Sawyer, John F. A., and David J. A. Clines, eds. Midian, Moab and Edom: The History and Archaeology of Late Bronze and Iron Age Jordan and North-West Arabia. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, 23. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1983.

Schipper, Bernd Ulrich. Israel und Ägypten in der Königszeit: Die kulturellen Kontakte von Salomo bis zum Fall Jerusalems. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, 170. Freiburg Schweiz: Universitätsverlag; Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999.

Simons, J. Handbook for the Study of Egyptian Topographical Lists Relating to Western Asia. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1937.

Timm, Stefan. Moab zwischen den Mächten: Studien zu historischen Denkmälern und Texten. Ägypten und Altes Testament, 17. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1989.

Wiseman, Dennis J., ed. Peoples of Old Testament Times. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973.

Worschech, Udo. Die Beziehungen Moabs zu Israel und Ägypten in der Eisenzeit: Siedlungsarchäologische u. siedlungshistorische Untersuchungen im Kernland Moabs (Ard el-Kerak). Ägypten und Altes Testament, 18. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1990.

Archaeology of Israel

Encyclopedias

Meyers, Erik M., ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Negev, Avraham, and Shimon Gibson. Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land. Revised edition. New York: Continuum, 2001.

Stern, Ephraim, ed. The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1993.

Studies

Ben-Tor, Amon, ed. The Archaeology of Ancient Israel. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1992.

Dever, William G. Recent Archaeological Discoveries and Biblical Research. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1990.

———. What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It: What Archaeology Can Tell Us about the Reality of Ancient Israel. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2001.

Finkelstein, Israel. The Archaeology of the Israelite Settlement. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1988.

———. Living on the Fringe: The Archaeology and History of the Negev, Sinai and Neighbouring Regions in the Bronze and Iron Ages. Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology, 6. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995.

Finkelstein, Israel, and Zvi Lederman, eds. Highlands of Many Cultures: The Southern Samaria Survey: The Sites, I-II. Tel Aviv: Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology, 1997.

Finkelstein, Israel, and Neil Asher Silberman. The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts. New York: The Free Press, 2001.

Fritz, Volkmar. An Introduction to Biblical Archaeology. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, 172. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1994.

Jamieson-Drake, David W. Scribes and Schools in Monarchic Israel: A Socio-Archeological Approach. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. Supplement Series, 109, The Social World of Biblical Antiquity Series, 9. Sheffield: Almond Press, 1991.

Kenyon, Kathleen M. Archaeology in the Holy Land. 4th ed. London: Ernest Benn, 1979.

Levy, Thomas E., ed. The Archaeology of the Society in the Holy Land. London: Leicester University Press, 1995.

Mazar, Amihai. Archaeology of the Land of the Bible 10,000-586 B.C.E. The Anchor Bible Reference Library. New York: Doubleday, 1990.

Pritchard, James B. Gibeon, Where the Sun Stood Still: The Discovery of a Biblical City. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1962.

Silberman, Neil Asher. Digging for God and Country: Exploration in the Holy Land 1799-1917. New York: Doubleday, 1982.

Silberman, Neil Asher, and David Small. The Archaeology of Israel: Constructing the Past, Interpreting the Present. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, 237. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997.

Skjeggestad, Marit. Facts in the Ground? Biblical History in Archaeological Interpretation of the Iron Age in Palestine. Oslo: Oslo University, 2001.

Stern, Ephraim. Archaeology of the Land of the Bible. II: The Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian Periods 732-332 BCE. New York: Doubleday, 2001.

Tappy, Ron E. The Archaeology of Israelite Samaria, I: Early Iron Age Through the Ninth Century B.C.E. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992.

Weippert, Helga. Palästina in vorhellenistischer Zeit. Mit einem Beitrag von Leo Mildenberg. Handbuch der Archäologie Vorderasien II: I. Munich: C. H. Beck’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1988.

History of Israel

History Writing in Ancient Israel

Amit, Yairah. History and Ideology: An Introduction to Historiography in the Hebrew Bible. The Biblical Seminar, 60. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999.

Brettler, Marc Zvi. The Creation of History in Ancient Israel. London: Routledge, 1995.

Edelman, Diana Vikander, ed. The Fabric of History: Text, Artifact and Israel’s Past. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, 127. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1991.

Grabbe, Lester L. Did Moses Speak Attic? Jewish Historiography and Scripture in the Hellenistic Period. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, 317. European Seminar in Historical Methodology, 3. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997.

Halpern, Baruch. The First Historians, The Hebrew Bible and History. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988.

Lemaire, André. Les écoles et la formation de la Bible dans l’ancien Israël. Orbis Biblicus et orientalis, 39. Fribourg Suisse: Éditions universitaires, and Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1981.

Long, V. Philip, ed. Israel’s Past in Present Research. Essays on Ancient Historiography. Sources for Biblical and Theological Study, 7. Winona Lake, Indi.: Eisenbrauns, 1999.

Malamat, Abraham. “Die Frühgeschichte Israels: Eine methodologische Studie.” Theologische Zeitschrift 39 (1983): 1-16.

Nielsen, Flemming A. J. The Tragedy in History: Herodotus and the Deuteronomistic History. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, 251, Copenhagen International Seminar, 4. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997.

Rad, Gerhard von. “Der Anfang der Geschichtsschreibung im alten Israel.” Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 32 (1944): 1-42 (“The Beginning of Historical Writing in Ancient Israel.” In Gerhard von Rad. The Problem of the Hexateuch and Other Essays. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966: 205-21).

Smith, Morton. Palestinian Parties and Politics That Shaped the Old Testament. New York: Columbia University Press, 1971 (reprint London: SCM Press, 1987).

Wellhausen, Julius. Prolegomena to the History of Ancient Israel, with an Introduction by W. Robertson Smith and a Preface by Douglas A. Knight. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1994.

Wesselius, Jan-Win. The Origin of the History of Israel: Herodotus’ Histories as Blueprint for the First Book of the Bible. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, 345. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002.

General Works and Collections

Ahlstöm, Gösta W. Who Were the Israelites? Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1986.

———. The History of Ancient Palestine from the Palaeolithic Period to Alexander’s Conquest. With a Contribution by Gary. O. Rollefson. Ed. Diana Edelman. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, 146. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993.

Albertz, Rainer. A History of Israelite Religion in the Old Testament Period, I-II. London: SCM Press, 1994.

Albright, William F. From the Stone Age to Christianity: Monotheism and the Historical Process, 2nd ed. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1957.

———. The Biblical Period from Abraham to Ezra. New York: Harper & Row, 1963.

Alt, Albrecht. Kleine Schriften zur Geschichte Israels, I-III. Munich: C. H. Beck’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1953-1959.

———. Essays on Old Testament History and Religion. Trans. R. A. Wilson. The Biblical Seminar. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1989.

Anderson, Bernhard W. The Living World of the Old Testament. 4th ed. Harlow: Longman, 1988.

Bordreuil, Pierre, and Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet. Le temps de la Bible. Paris: Gallimard, 2000.

Bright, John. A History of Israel. The Old Testament Library. London: SCM Press, 1960 (4th ed., Louisville, Ky.: Westminster-John Knox Press, 2000).

Davies, Philip R. In Search of “Ancient” Israel. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, 148. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1992.

Donner, Herbert. Geschichte des Volkes Israel und seiner Nachbarn in Grundzügen, I-II. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1984-1986.

Garbini, Giovanni. History and Ideology in Ancient Israel. London: SCM Press, 1988.

Grabbe, Lester L., ed. Can a “History of Israel” Be Written? Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, 245. European Seminar in Historical Methodology, 1. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997.

Gunneweh, Antonius H. J. Geschichte Israels bis Bar Kochba. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1972.

Hayes, John H., and J. Maxwell Miller, eds. Israelite and Judaean History. Old Testament Library. London: SCM Press, 1977.

Herrmann, Siegfried. A History of Israel in Old Testament Times. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1981.

Knauf, Ernst Axel. Die Umwelt des Alten Testaments. Neue Stuttgarter Kommentar, Altes Testament, 29. Stuttgart: Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk, 1994.

Knauf, Ernst Axel, and Andre de Pury. Geschichte Israel. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2003.

Knoll, K. L. Canaan and Israel in Antiquity: An Introduction. The Biblical Seminar, 83. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001.

Isserlin, B. S. J. The Israelites. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001.

Lemche, Niels Peter. Ancient Israel: A New History of Israelite Society. The Biblical Seminar. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1988.

———. The Israelites in History and Tradition. Library of Ancient Israel. London: SPCK, and Louisville, Ky: John Knox Press, 1998.

Miller, J. Maxwell, and John H. Hayes. A History of Ancient Israel and Judah. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986.

Noth, Martin. The History of Israel. 2nd ed. London: Black, 1959.

———. Aufsätze zur biblischen Landes- und Altertumskunde. Herausgegeben von Hans Walter Wolff, I-II. Neukirchen: Neukirchener Verlag, 1971.

Shanks, Hershel, ed. Ancient Israel: A Short History from Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple. Washington, D.C.: Biblical Archaeological Society, and Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1988.

Soggin, J. Alberto. An Introduction to the History of Israel and Judah. 3rd ed. London: SCM Press, 1999.

Vaux, Roland de. Histoire ancienne d’Israël, I: Des origines à l’installation en Canaan. Paris: Librairie Lecoffre, J. Gabalda et Cie, Éditeurs, 1971.

———. Histoire ancienne d’Israël, II: La période des juges. Paris: Librairie Lecoffre, J. Gabalda et Cie, Éditeurs, 1973.

———. The Early History of Israel to the Period of the Judges. London: Datton, Longman & Todd, 1978.

Whitelam, Keith W. The Invention of Ancient Israel: The Silencing of Palestinian History. London: Routledge, 1996.

Chronology

Andersen, Knud Tage. “Noch einmal: Die Chronologie von Israel und Juda.” Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 3/1 (1989): 1-45.

Bickerman, Ed. J. Chronology on the Ancient World. Rev. ed. London: Thames and Hudson, 1980.

Cryer, Frederick H. “To the One of Fictive Music: OT Chronology and History.” Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 1/2 (1987): 1-27.

Hayes, John H., and Paul K. Hooker. A New Chronology for the Kings of Israel and Judah and Its Implications for Biblical History and Literature. Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1988.

Thiele, Edwin R. The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings. New Rev. ed.. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Kregel, 1994.

Geography and Historical Geography

Aharoni, Yohanan. The Land of the Bible. A Historical Geography. Translated from the Hebrew by A. F. Rainey. London: Burns & Oates, 1968.

Aharoni, Yohanan, Michael Avi-Yonah, Anson F. Rainey, and Ze’ev Safrai. The Carta Bible Atlas. 4th ed. Jerusalem: Carta, and Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2003.

Avi-Yonah, Michael. The Holy Land from the Persian to the Arab Conquest (536 B.C. to A.D. 640). Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House, 1966.

Bahat, Dan, with Chaim T. Rubinstein. The Illustrated Atlas of Jerusalem. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990.

Baly, Dennis. The Geography of the Bible: A Study in Historical Geography. London: Lutterworth Press, 1964.

Dorsey, David A. The Roads and Highways of Ancient Israel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.

Frank, H. T. and J. Monson eds. Student Map Manual. Historical Geography of the Bible Lands. Jerusalem: Pictorial Archive (Near Eastern History), 1983 (1979).

Galil, Gershon, and Moshe Weinfeld, eds. Studies in Historical Geography and Biblical Historiography Presented to Zechariah Kallai. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, 81. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2000.

Höhne, Ernst. Palästina. Historisch-Archäologische Karte. Zwei vierzehnfarbige Blätter 1:300000. Mit Einführung und Register. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1981.

Kallai, Zechariah. Historical Geography of the Bible: The Tribal Territories of Israel. Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, and Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1986.

Karmon, Yehuda. Israel. Eine geographische Landeskunde. Wissenschaftliche Länderkunden 22. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1983.

Keel, Othmar, and Max Küchler. Orte und Landschaften der Bibel. Ein Handbuch und Studien-reiseführer zum Heiligen Land, II: Der Süden. Zürich: Benziger, and Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982.

Keel, Othmar, Max Küchler, and Christoph Uehlinger. Orte und Landschaften der Bibel. Ein Handbuch und Studien-reiseführer zum Heiligen Land, I: Geographisch-geschichtliche Landeskunde. Zürich: Benziger, and Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1984.

May, Herbert G. Oxford Bible Atlas. 3rd edition. London: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Mittmann, Siegfried, and Götz Schmitt, eds. Tübinger Bibelatlas. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2001.

Na’aman, Nadav. Borders and Districts in Biblical Historiography. Seven Studies in Biblical Geographical Lists. Jerusalem Biblical Studies, 4. Jerusalem: Simor Ltd., 1986.

Pritchard, James B. Herders grosser Bibel Atlas. Freiburg: Herder, 1996.

Strange, John. Stuttgarter Bibelatlas: Historische Karten der biblischen Welt. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1998.

Sociology—Society

Borowski, Oded. Agriculture in Iron Age Israel. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1987.

Brett, M. G., ed. Ethnicity and the Bible. Biblical Interpretation, 19. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996.

Briant, Pierre. Etat et pasteurs au Moyen-Orient ancient. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, and Paris: Editions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 1982.

Carter, Charles E., and Carol L. Meyers, eds. Community, Identity, and Ideology: Social Science Approaches to the Hebrew Bible. Sources for Biblical and Theological Study, 6. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1996.

Fritz, Volkmar. Die Stadt im alten Israel. Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck, 1990.

Gottwald, Norman K. The Hebrew Bible in Its Social World and in Ours. The Society of Biblical Literature, Semeian Studies. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993.

———. The Politics of Ancient Israel. Library of Ancient Israel. Louisville, Ky: Westminster/John Knox Press, 2001.

Heltzer, Michael. The Suteans. With a Contribution by Shoshane Arbeli. Naples: Istituto Universitario Orientale, 1981.

Hopkins, David C. The Highlands of Canaan. Agricultural Life in the Early Iron Age. The Social World of Biblical Antiquity Series, 3. Sheffield: Almond Press, 1985.

King, Philip J., and Lawrence E. Stager: Life in Biblical Israel. Library of Ancient Israel. Louisville, Ky: Westminster/John Knox Press, 2001.

McNutt, Paula. The Forging of Israel. Iron Technology, Symbolism, and Tradition in Ancient Society. The Social World of Biblical Antiquity Series, 8, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series, 108. Sheffield: Almond Press, 1990.

———. Reconstructing the Society of Ancient Israel. Library of Ancient Israel. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1999.

Noth, Martin. Die Welt des Alten Testaments. 4. Auflage. Berlin: Alfred Töpelmann, 1962.

Pedersen, Johannes. Israel. Its Life and Culture I-II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1926-1947.

Reviv, Hanoch. The Elders in Ancient Israel: A Study of a Biblical Institution. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1989.

Rogerson, John W. Anthropology and the Old Testament. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1978.

Sneed, Mark R., ed. Concepts of Class in Ancient Israel. South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism, 201. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999.

Sparks, Kenton L. Ethnicity and Identity in Ancient Israel: Prolegomena to the Study of Ethnic Sentiments and Their Expression in the Hebrew Bible. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1998.

Staubli, Thomas. Das Image der Nomaden im Alten Israel und in der Ikonographie seiner sesshaften Nachbarn. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, 107. Freiburg Schweiz: Universitätsverlag, and Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1991.

Institutions

Blenkinsopp, Joseph. Sage, Priest, Prophet: Religious and Intellectual Leasership in Ancient Israel. Library of Ancient Israel. Louisville, Ky: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1995.

Buccellati, Giovanni. Cities and Nations of Ancient Syria: An Essay on Political Institutions with Special Reference to the Israelite Kingdoms. Studi Semitici, 26. Rome: Istituto di Studi del Vicino Oriente, 1967.

Nissinen, Martti, ed. Prophecy in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context: Mesopotamian, Biblical, and Arabian Perspectives. Society of Biblical Literature, Symposium Series, 13. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2000.

Vaux, Roland de. Les Institutions de l’Ancien Testament. I. Le nomadisme et ses survivances. Institutions familiales. Institutions civiles. 2e edition revue. Paris: Les éditions du Cerf, 1961.

———. Les Institutions de l’Ancien Testament. II. Institution militaires-Institutions religieuses. Paris: Les éditions du Cerf, 1960. (Ancient Israel. London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1962).

The Minimalist—Maximalist Controversy

Davies, Philip R. “Method and Madness: Some Suggestions on Doing History with the Bible.” Journal of Biblical Literature 114 (1995): 699-705.

Grabbe, Lester L. “Writing Israel’s History at the End of the Twentieth Century.” In A. Lemaire and M. Sæbø, eds. Congress Volume Oslo 1998. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, 80. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2000: 203-18.

Halpern, Baruch. “Erasing History: The Minimalist Assault on Ancient Israel.” In V. Philip Long, ed. Israel’s Past in Present Research. Essays on Ancient Historiography. Sources for Biblical and Theological Study, 7. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1999: 415-26.

Lemche, Niels Peter. “Is it Still Possible to Write a History of Ancient Israel.” Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 8 (1994): 163-88. Reprinted in V. Philip Long, ed. Israel’s Past in Present Research. Essays on Ancient Historiography. Sources for Biblical and Theological Study, 7. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1999: 391-414.

———. “Ideology and the History of Ancient Israel.” Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 14 (2000): 165-94.

Pasto, James. “When the End Is the Beginning? Or When the Biblical Past Is the Political Present: Some Thoughts on Ancient Israel, ‘Post-Exilic Judaism,’ and the Politics of Biblical Scholarship.” Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 12 (1998): 157-202.

Provan, Ian W. “Ideologies, Literary and Critical Reflections on Recent Writing on the History of Israel.” Journal of Biblical Literature 114 (1995): 585-606.

———. “In the Stable with the Dwarves: Testimony, Interpretation, Faith and the History of Israel.” In A. Lemaire and M. Sæbø, eds. Congress Volume Oslo 1998. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, 80. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2000: 281-319.

Thompson, Thomas L. “A Neo-Albrightean School in History and Biblical Scholarship.” Journal of Biblical Literature 114 (1995): 683-98.

Patriarchs

Albright, William F. “Abraham the Hebrew: A New Archaeological Interpretation.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 163 (1961): 36-54.

Dever, William G. and W. Malcolm Clark. “The Patriarchal Traditions.” In John H. Hayes and J. Maxwell Miller, eds. Israelite and Judaean History. Old Testament Library. London: SCM Press, 1977: 70-148.

Redford, Donald B. A Study of the Biblical Joseph Story. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, 20. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1970.

Thompson, Thomas L. The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives: The Quest for the Historical Abraham. Beiheft zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 133. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1974 (repr. Harrisburg, Penn.: Trinity Press International, 2002).

Thompson, Thomas L. and Dorothy Irvin. “The Joseph and Moses Narratives.” In John H. Hayes and J. Maxwell Miller, eds. Israelite and Judaean History. Old Testament Library. London: SCM Press, 1977: 149-212.

Van Seters, John. Abraham in History and Tradition. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1975.

Vaux, Roland de. “The Hebrew Patriarchs and History.” In V. Philip Long, ed. Israel’s Past in Present Research. Essays on Ancient Historiography. Sources for Biblical and Theological Study, 7. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1999: 470-79.

Exodus, Settlement of the Israelite Tribes, Period of the Judges

Ahituv, Shmuel, and Eliezer D. Oren. The Origin of Early Israel—Current Debate: Biblical, Historical and Archaeological Perspectives. Beer-Sheva, 12. Beer-Sheva: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 1998.

Albright, William F. “Archaeology and the Hebrew Conquest of Palestine.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 58 (1935): 1-18.

———. “The Israelite Conquest in the Light of Archaeology.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 74 (1939): 11-22.

Alt, Albrecht. “Die Landnahme der israeliten in Palästina.” Kleine Schriften zur Geschichte Israels, I. Munich: C. H. Beck’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1953: 89-125 (“The Settlements of the Israelites in Palestine.” In Albrecht Alt. Essays on Old Testament History and Religion. The Biblical Seminar. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1989: 177-221).

———. “Erwägungen über die Landnahme der Israeliten in Palästina.” Kleine Schriften zur Geschichte Israels, I. Munich: C. H. Beck’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1953: 126-75.

Coats, George W. Moses: Heroic Man, Man of God. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, 57. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1988.

Coote, Robert B., and Keith W. Whitelam: The Emergence of Early Israel in Historical Perspective. The Social World of Biblical Antiquity Series, 5. Sheffield: Almond Press, 1987.

Finkelstein, Israel, and Nadav Na’aman, eds. From Nomadism to Monarchy. Archaeological and Historical Aspects of Early Israel. Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1994.

Freedman, David Noel, and David Frank Graf, eds. Palestine in Transition: The Emergence of Ancient Israel. The Social World of Biblical Antiquity Series, 1. Sheffield: Published in Association with the American Schools of Oriental Research by Almond Press, 1983.

Frerichs, Ernest S., and Leonard H. Lesko, eds. Exodus: The Egyptian Evidence. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1997.

Fritz, Volkmar. Die Entstehung Israels im 12. und 11. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Biblische Enzyklopädie, 2. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1996.

Gal, Zvi. Lower Galilee during the Iron Age. American Schools of Oriental Research Dissertation Series, 8. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1992.

Geus, C. H. J. de. The Tribes of Israel. An Investigation into Some of the Presuppositions of Martin Noth’s Amphictyonic Hypothesis. Studia Semitica Neerlandica, 18. Amsterdam: van Gorcum, 1976.

Givéon, Raphael. Les Bédouins Shoshou des document égyptiens. Documenta et monumenta Orientis Antiquii, 18. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1971.

Gottwald, Norman K. The Tribes of Yahweh. A Sociology of the Religion of Liberated Israel 1250-1050 B.C. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1979.

Halpern, Baruch. The Emergence of Israel in Canaan. Society of Biblical Literature Monograph Series, 29. Chico, Calif.: Scholars Press, 1983.

Jericke, Detlef. Die Landnahme im Negev: Protoisraelitischen Gruppen im Süden Palästinas. Eine archäaologische und exegetische Studie. Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1997.

Herrmann, Siegfried. Israels Aufenhalt in Ägypten. Stuttgart: Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk, 1970.

Kaufmann, Yehezkel. The Biblical Account of the Conquest of Palestine. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1953.

Lemche, Niels Peter. “Israel in the Period of the Judges—The Tribal League in Recent Discussion.” Studia Theologica 38 (1984): 1-28.

———. Early Israel: Anthropological and Historical Studies on the Israelite Society before the Monarchy. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, 37. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1985.

———. “Early Israel Revisited.” Currents in Research: Biblical Studies 4 (1996): 9-34.

Mayes, A. D. H. Israel in the Period of the Judges. London: SCM Press, 1974.

Mendenhall, George E. “The Hebrew Conquest of Palestine.” Biblical Archaeologist 25 (1962): 66-87.

———. The Tenth Generation. The Origin of the Biblical Tradition. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973.

Meyers, Carol. “Early Israel and the Rise of the Israelite Monarchy.” In James G. Perdue, ed. The Blackwell Companion to the Hebrew Bible. Cambridge: Blackwell, 2001: 61-86.

Mittmann, Siegfried. Beiträge zur Siedlungs- und Territorialgeschichte des nördlichen Ostjordanlandes. Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins, 2. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1970.

Niemann, Hermann Michael. Die Daniten. Studien zur Geschichte eines altisraelitischen Stammes. Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments, 135. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1985.

Noth, Martin. Das System der Zwölf Stämme Israels. Beiträge zur Wissenschaft vom Alten und Neuen Testament, 4:1. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1930 (reprint, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1966).

Schmidt, Werner H. Exodus, Sinai und Mose. Erwägungen zu Ex1-19 und 24. Erträge der Forschung, 191. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1990.

Schunck, Klaus-Dietrich. Benjamin. Untersuchungen zur Entstehung und Geschichte eines israelitischen Stammes. Beiheft zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 86. Berlin: Alfred Töpelmann, 1963.

Shanks, Hershell, ed. The Rise of Ancient Israel. Washington, D.C.: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1992.

Shilo, Yigael. “The Four-Room House: Its Situation and Function in the Israelite City.” Israel Exploration Journal 20 (1970): 180-90.

———. “The Casemate Wall, the Four Room House, and Early Planning in the Israelite City.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 268 (1987): 3-16.

Stager, Lawrence E. “The Archaeology of the Family in Ancient Israel.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 260 (1985): 1-35.

Weinfeld, Moshe. “The Period of Conquest and of Judges as seen by Earlier and Later Sources.” Vetus Testamentum 17 (1967): 93-113.

Weippert, Manfred. Die Landnahme der israelitischen Stämme in der neueren wissenschaftlichen Diskussion. Ein kritischer Bericht. Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments, 92. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1967 (The Settlement of the Israelite Tribes in Palestine: A Critical Survey of Recent Scholarly Debate. Studies in Biblical Theology Second Series, 21. London: SCM Press, 1971).

Yadin, Yigael. Hazor. The Head of All Those Kingdoms with a Chapter on Israelite Megiddo. The Schweich Lectures of the British Academy, 1970. London: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1972.

Zobel, Hans-Jürgen. Stammespruch und Geschichte. Beiheft zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 95. Berlin: Alfred Töpelmann, 1965.

United Monarchy

Alt, Albrecht. “Die Staatenbildung der Israeliten in Palästina.” In Kleine Schriften zur Geschichte Israels, II. Munich: C. H. Beck’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1953: 1-65 (“The Formation of the Israelite State in Palestine.” In Albrecht Alt. Essays on Old Testament History and Religion. The Biblical Seminar. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1989: 171-237.

Ash, Paul S. David, Solomon and Egypt: A Reassessment. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, 297. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999.

Crüsemann, Frank. Der Widerstand gegen das Königtum. Die anti-königlichen Texte des Alten Testamentes und der Kampf um den frühen israelitischen Staat. Wissenschaftliche Monographien zum Alten und Neuen Testament, 49. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag des Erziehungsvereins, 1978.

Dietrich, Walter. Die frühe Königszeit in Israel. 10. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Biblische Enzyklopädie, 3. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1997.

———. Von David zu den Deuteronomisten: Studien zu den Geschichtsüberlieferungen des Alten Testaments. Beiträge zur Wissenschaft vom Alten und Neuen Testament, 156. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 2002.

Edelman, Diana Vikander. King Saul in the Historiography of Judah. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, 121. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1991.

Finkelstein, Israel. “The Emergence of the Monarchy in Israel: The Environmental and Socio-economic Aspects.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 44 (1989): 43-74.

———. “The Archaeology of the United Monarchy: An Alternative View.” Levant 28 (1996): 177-87.

———. “State Formation in Israel and Judah: A Contrast in Context, A Contrast in Trajectory.” Near Eastern Archaeology 62 (1999): 35-52.

Frick, F. S. The Formation of the State in Ancient Israel. A Survey of Models and Theories. The Social World of Biblical Antiquity Series, 4. Sheffield: Almond, 1985.

Friis, Heike. Die Bedingungen für die Errichtung des Davidischen Reichs in Israel und seiner Umwelt. Dielheimer Blätter zum Alten Testament und seiner Rezeption in der Alten Kirche Beiheft, 6. Heidelberg: Dielheimer Blätter, 1986.

Fritz, Volkmar, and Philip R. Davies, eds. The Origins of the Israelite States. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, 228. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996.

Halpern, Baruch. “The Uneasy Compromise: Israel between League and Monarchy.” In Patrick D. Miller, Paul D. Hanson, and S. Dean McBride, eds. Ancient Israelite Religion: Essays in Honor of Frank Moore Cross. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1987: 59-96.

———. David’s Secret Demons: Messiah, Murderer, Traitor, King. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2001.

Handy, Lowell K., ed. The Age of Solomon. Scholarship at the Turn of the Millennium. Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East, XI. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1997.

Knoppers, Gary N. Two Nations under God: The Deuteronomistic History of Solomon and the Dual Monarchy, 1: The Reign of Solomon and the Rise of Jeroboam. Harvard Semitic Monographs, 42. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993.

Levin, Christoph. Der Sturz der Königin Atalja: Ein Kapitel zur Geschichte Judas im 9. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Stuttgarter Bibelstudien, 105. Stuttgart: Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk, 1982.

Long, V. P. The Reign and Rejection of King Saul. A Case for Literary and Theological Coherence. Society of Biblical Literature, Dissertation Series, 118. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989.

Mazar, Amihai. “Iron Age Chronology: A Reply to Israel Finkelstein.” Levant 29 (1997): 157-67.

Na’aman, Nadab. “In Search of Reality behind the Accounts of David’s Wars with Israel’s Neighbours.” Israel Exploration Journal 52 (2002): 200-24.

Neu, Rainer. Von der Anarchie zum Staat Entwicklungsgeschichte Israels vom Nomadentum zur Monarchie im Spiegel der Ethnosoziologie. Neukirchen: Neukirchener Verlag, 1992.

Nicholson, Sarah. Three Faces of Saul: An Intertextual Approach to Biblical Tragedy. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, 339. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002.

Niemann, Hermann Michael. Herrschaft, Königtum und Staat: Skizzen zur soziokulturellen Entwicklung im monarchischen Israel. Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 6. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1993.

Rost, Leonhard. Die Überlieferung von der Thronfolge Davids. Beiträge zur Wissenschaft des Alten und Neuen Testaments, III, 6. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1926 (The Succession to the Throne of David. Sheffield: Almond Press, 1982).

Soggin, J. Alberto. “The Davidic—Solomonic Kingdom.” In John H. Hayes, and J. Maxwell Miller, eds. Israelite and Judaean History. Old Testament Library. London: SCM Press, 1977: 332-80.

Wightman, G. J. “The Myth of Solomon.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 277/278 (1990): 5-22.

The Hebrew Kingdoms

Ahlström, Gösta W. Royal Administration and National Religion in Ancient Palestine. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1982.

Alt, Albrecht. “Das Königtum in den Reichen Israel und Juda.” In Kleine Schriften zur Geschichte Israels, II. Munich: C. H. Beck’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1953: 116-34 (“The Monarchy in Israel and Juda.” In Albrecht Alt, Essays on Old Testament History and Religion. The Biblical Seminar. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1989: 239-59.

Avishur, Y., and M. Heltzer. Studies on the Royal Administration in Ancient Israel in the Light of Epigraphic Sources. Tel Aviv: Archaeological Center Publications, 2000.

Becking, Bob. The Fall of Samaria: An Historical and Archaeological Study. Studies in the History of the Ancient Near East, 2. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992.

Broshi, Magen, and Israel Finkelstein. “The Population of Palestine in Iron Age II.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 287 (1992): 47-60.

Conçalves, Francolino J. L’expédition de Sennacherib en Palestine dans la littérature hébraïque ancienne. Études Bibliques N.S. 7. Paris: Librairie Lecoffre, J. Gabalda et Cie éditeurs, 1986.

Donner, Herbert. Israel unter den Völkern: Die Stellung der klassischen Propheten des 8. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. zur Aussenpolitik der Könige von Israel und Juda. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, 11. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1964.

Evans, C. D. “Judah’s Foreign Policy from Hezekiah to Josiah.” In C. D. Evans, W. W. Hallo, and J. B. White, eds. Scripture in Context: Essays on the Comparative Method. Pittsburgh: Pickwick Press, 1980.

Hoppe, Leslie J. “The History of Israel in the Monarchic Period.” In James G. Perdue, ed. The Blackwell Companion to the Hebrew Bible. Cambridge: Basil Blackwell, 2001: 87-101.

Lang, Bernhard. “The Social Organization of Peasant Poverty in Biblical Israel.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 24 (1982): 47-63.

Lemche, Niels Peter. “Kings and Clients: On Loyalty between the Ruler and the Ruled in Ancient ‘Israel’.” Semeia 66 (1995): 119-32.

Lowery, R. H. The Reforming Kings: Cult and Society in First Temple Judah. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, 120. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1991.

McKenzie, Stephen L. The Trouble with Kings: The Composition of the Book of Kings in the Deuteronomistic History. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, 42: Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1991.

Mettinger, Tryggve N. D. Solomonic State Officials. A Study of the Civil Government Officials of the Israelite Monarchy. Coniectanea Biblica Old Testament Series, 5. Lund: CWK Gleerup, 1971.

Na’aman, Nadab. “Hezekiah’s Fortified Cities and the LMLK Stamps.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 261 (1986): 5-21.

———. “The Kingdom of Judah under Josiah.” Tel Aviv 18 (1991): 3-71.

———. “Population Changes in Palestine following Assyrian Deportations.” Tel Aviv 20 (1993): 104-24.

———. “Hezekiah and the Kings of Assyria.” Tel Aviv 21 (1994): 235-254.

———. “The Deuteronomist and Voluntary Servitude to Foreign Powers.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 65 (1995): 37-53.

Oded, Bustaney. Mass Deportation and Deportees in the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Wiesbaden: Ludwig Reichert, 1979.

———. “The Settlement of the Israelite and Judean Exiles in Mesopotamia in the 8th-6th Centuries BCE.” In Gershon Galil, and Moshe Weinfeld, eds. Studies in Historical Geography and Biblical Historiography Presented to Zechariah Kallai. Supplements to Vetus testamentum, 81. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2000: 91-103.

Olivier, Hannes. “In Search of a Capital for the Northern Kingdom.” Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 11 (1983): 117-32.

Reinhold, G. G. G. Die Beziehung Altisraels zu den aramäischen Staaten in der israelitisch-judäischen Königszeit. Europäische Hochschulschriften, XXIII: 368. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 1989.

Schoors, Antoon. Die Königsreiche Israel und Juda im 8. und 7. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Biblische Enzyklopädie, 5. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1998.

Schulte, H. “The End of the Omride Dynasty: Social-Ethical Observations on the Subject of Power and Violence.” In Douglas A. Knight, ed. Ethics and Politics in the Hebrew Bible. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1994: 133-48.

Spieckermann, Hermann. Juda unter Assur in der Sargonidenzeit. Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments, 129. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982.

Sweeney, Marvin A. King Josiah of Judah: The Lost Messiah of Israel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Timm, Stefan. Die Dynastie Omri. Quellen und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte Israels im 9. Jahrhundert vor Christus. Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments, 124. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982.

Ussishkin, David. The Conquest of Lachish by Sennacherib. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, Institute of Archaeology, 1982.

Vogt, E. Der Aufstand Hiskias und die Belagerung Jerusalems 701 v. Chr. Analecta Biblica, 106. Rome: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1986.

Welten, Peter. Die Königs-Stempel: Ein Beitrag zur militärpolitik Judas unter Hiskia und Josia. Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1969.

———. Geschichte und Geschichtsdarstellung in den Chronikbüchern. Wissenschaftliche Monographien zum Alten und Neuen Testament, 42. Neukirchen: Neukirchener Verlag, 1972.

Younger, K. Lawson. “The Deportation of the Israelites.” Journal of Biblical Literature 117 (1998): 201-27.

Exile

Ackroyd, Peter. Exile and Restoration: A Study of Hebrew Thought of the Sixth Century BC. London: SCM Press, 1968.

———. Israel unter Babylon and Persia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970.

Albertz, Rainer. Die Exilszeit. 6. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Biblische Enzyklopädie, 7. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 2001.

Barstad, Hans M. The Myth of the Empty Land. A Study in the History and Archaeology of Judah during the “Exilic” Period. Symbolae osloenses, 28. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 1996.

Carroll, Robert P. “Exile, Restoration, and Colony: Judah in the Persian Period. In James G. Perdue, ed. The Blackwell Companion to the Hebrew Bible. Cambridge: Basil Blackwell, 2001: 102-16.

Grabbe, Lester L. Leading Captivity Captive: “The Exile” as History and Ideology. European Seminar in Historical Methodology, 2. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998.

Janssen, E. Juda in der Exilszeit: Ein Beitrag zur Frage der Entstehung des Judentums. Forschungen zur religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments, 69. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1956.

Lipschits, Oded. The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem. (forthcoming)

Lipschits, Oded, and Joseph Blenkinsopp, eds. Judah and the Judaeans in the Neo-Babylonian Period. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2003.

Oded, Bustaney. “Observations on the Israelite/Judaean Exiles in Mesopotamia during the Eighth-Sixth Centuries BCE.” In K. van Lerberghe and Anton Schoors, eds. Immigration and Emigration within the Ancient Near East. Studies E. Lipinski. Leuven: Peeters, 1995: 205-12.

Zadok, Ran. The Jews in Babylonia during the Chaldean and Achaeminidian Periods according to the Babylonian Sources. Haifa: University of Haifa, 1979.

Restoration, Persian Period

Bedford, Peter Ross. Temple Restauration in Early Achaemenid Judah. Supplements to the Journal of Judaism, 65. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2001.

Berquist, J. L. Judaism in Persia’s Shadow. A Social and Historical Approach. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995.

Briant, Pierre. “Histoire impériale et historire régionale: à propos de l’histoire de Juda dans l’empire achéménide.” In A. Lemaire and M. Sæbø, eds. Congress Volume Oslo 1998. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, 80. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2000: 235-45.

Carter, C. The Emergence of Yehud in the Persian Period: A Social and Demographical Study. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. Supplementary Studies, 294. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999.

Davies, Philip R., ed. Second Temple Studies. 1: Persian Period. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, 117. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1991.

Eskenazi, Tamara C., and Kent H. Richards. Second Temple Studies. 2: Temple and Community in the Persian Period. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, 175. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994.

Galling, Kurt. Studien zur Geschichte Israels im persischen Zeitalter. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1964.

Grabbe, Lester L. Judaism from Cyrus to Hadrian, I-II. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992.

Hoglund, K. Achaemenid Imperial Administration in Syria-Palestine and the Missions of Ezra and Nehemia. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992.

Kuhrt, Amélie. “The Cyrus Cylinder and Achaemenid Imperial Policy.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 25 (1983): 83-97.

Meyers, Eric M. “The Persian Period and the Judean Restoration: From Zerubbabel to Nehemiah.” In Patrick D. Miller, Paul D. Hanson, and S. Dean McBride, eds. Ancient Israelite Religion: Essays in Honor of Frank Moore Cross. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1987: 509-22.

Pastor, Jack. Land and Economy in Ancient Palestine. London: Routledge, 1997.

Smith, D. L., and Norman K. Gottwald. The Religion of the Landless. The Social Context of the Babylonian Exile. Houston: HarperCollins, 1989.

Stern, Ephraim. Material Culture of the Land of the Bible in the Persian Period 538-332 B.C. Jerusalem: David Brown Books, 1982.

Weinberg, Joel. The Citizen-Temple Community. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, 151. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1992.

Willi, Thomas. Juda—Jehud—Israel: Studien zum Selbstverständnis des Judentums in persischer Zeit. Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 12. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1995.

Williamson, Hugh. “Judah and the Jews.” In M. Brosius and A. Kuhrt, eds. Studies in Persian History: Esssays in Memory of David M. Lewis. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998: 145-63.