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
ANDRÉ 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
