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The Human and the Divine in History investigates the possibility that the author of Daniel knew and drew upon the Histories of Herodotus. Daniel uses and develops Herodotean concepts such as the succession of world empires, dynastic dreams, and the focus on both human and divine cauration in explaining historical events.

This analysis of Hosea dismantles the androcentric and theological assumptions of the book's dominant reading. Instead, Hosea's symbol of Israel as an adulterous woman is read as a commentary on the structural violence in Israelite society which accompanied the 8th century boom in "agribusiness".

This study assembles the evidence in search of an integrated view of royal women's position and power in critical functions of monarchy, challenging customary assumptions about women's place in the royal harem.

Papers of a symposium between the department of Bible Studies, Tel Aviv University, and the Faculty of Protestant Theology, Bochum, on the Jewish and Christian Biblical understanding of eschatology.

This book examines the portrayal of Israel as a royal-priestly nation within Exodus and against the background of biblical and ancient Near Eastern thought. Central to the work is a literary study of Exodus 19.4-6 and a demonstration of the pivotal role these verses and their main image have within Exodus.

This study investigates the Dan/Danite tradition in the Hebrew Bible to determine what it tells us about Dan and also the degree to which traditions associated with one representation of Dan may have influenced the characterization of another.

This Symposium asks whether a ''history of Israel'' can be written, and if it can, how? Can the Hebrew Bible be used as a source for such history? The question of writing the ''history of ancient Israel'' has become fiercely debated in recent years. It is a debate that seems to generate more heat than light because of quite different concepts of historical methodology. The European Seminar on Methodology in Israel''s History was founded specifically to address this problem. Members of the Seminar hold a variety of views but all agree that there is a problem to be tackled. The first meeting of the Seminar, held in Dublin in 1996, was devoted to some broad questions: (1) Can a ''history of ancient Israel'' (or Palestine, Syria, the Levant, etc.) be written? (2) If so, how? What place does the Hebrew Bible have as a source in writing this history? This first volume contains the main papers that were prepared to set the stage for the discussion, along with an introduction to the Seminar, its aims and its membership. The editor also provides a concluding chapter summarizing and reflecting on the debate.