A New Volume Forthcoming

Edited by Philip Davies and Diana Edelman, The Historian and the Bible: Essays in Honor of Lester Grabbe, is purportedly due out in August.  It’s rather pricey.  Perhaps ordering it from Eisenbrauns would be better if they’re offering a discount.

UPDATE:  They now do.

It looks to be a fascinating volume by a cast of scholars above reproach:

HANS BARSTAD — History and Memory. Some Reflections on the ‘Memory Debate’ in Relation to the Hebrew Bible

NIELS PETER LEMCHE — Postcolonial Studies and the Study of Israelite History.

NADAV NAAMAN — Text and Archaeology in a Period of Great Decline: The Contribution of the Amarna Letters to the Debate on the Historicity of Nehemiah’s Wall

RAINER ALBERTZ — Secondary Sources Also Deserve to be Historically Evaluated: The Case of the United Monarchy

THOMAS L. THOMPSON –Reiterative Narrative and the Problem of the Exile

ANDRÉ LEMAIRE –Hazor in the Second Half of the 10th Century BCE: Historiography, Archaeology and History

MARIO LIVERANI –The Chronology of the Biblical Fairy-Tale

EHUD BEN ZVI — The Story of Micaiah, son of Imlah: What Could the Ancient Intended Readers Learn from It?

DIANA V. EDELMAN– Of Priests and Prophets and Interpreting the Past: The Egyptian Hm-Ntr and Hry-Hbt and the Judahite nabi’

HUGH G.M. WILLIAMSON — Welcome Home

ODED LIPSCHITS — Here is a Man Whose Name is ?ema?’ (Zechariah 6:12)

BOB BECKING –Drought, Hunger, and Redistribution: A Social-Economic Reading of Nehemiah 5

JOSEPH BLENKINSOPP — Footnotes to the Rescript of Artaxerxes (Ezra 7:11-26)

GARY N. KNOPPERS– Aspects of Samaria’s Religious Culture during the Early Hellenistic Period

E. AXEL KNAUF — Biblical References to Judean Settlement in Eretz Israel (and Beyond) in the Late Persian and Early Hellenistic Periods

PHILIP R. DAVIES — The Hebrew Canon and the Origins of Judaism

GEORGE J. BROOKE –What Makes a Text Historical? Assumptions behind the Classification of Some Dead Sea Scrolls