Ahab Agonistes

Lester Grabbe, MA(Pasadena), PhD(Claremont), DD(Hull), is Professor Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism at the University of Hull

• I. INTRODUCTION; LESTER L. GRABBE; Introduction; II. ARTICLES; HANS M. BARSTAD; Can Prophetic Texts Be Dated? Amos 1-2 as an Example; EHUD BEN ZVI; The House of Omri/Ahab in Chronicles; LESTER L. GRABBE; The Kingdom of Israel from Omri to the Fall of Samaria: If We Had Only the Bible...; ERNST AXEL KNAUF; Was Omride Israel a Sovereign State?; INGO KOTTSIEPER; The Tel Dan Inscription (KAI 310) and the Political Relations between Aram-Damascus and Israel in the First Half of the First Millennium BCE; ANDRE LEMAIRE; The Mesha Stele and the Omri Dynasty; NADAV NA'AMAN; Royal Inscription versus Prophetic Story: Mesha's Rebellion according to Biblical and Moabite Historiography; HERMANN MICHAEL NIEMANN; Royal Samaria - Capital or Residence? or: The Foundation of the City of Samaria by Sargon II; DAGMAR PRUIN; What Is in a Text? - Searching for Jezebel; THOMAS L. THOMPSON; A Testimony of the Good King: Reading the Mesha Stele; DAVID USSISHKIN; Samaria, Jezreel and Megiddo: Royal Centres of Omri and Ahab; DAVID A. WARBURTON; The Architecture of Israelite Temples; III. CONCLUSIONS; LESTER L. GRABBE; Reflections on the Discussion.

Mention - International Review of Biblical Studies, vol. 54:2007/08