The biblical archaeology versus Syro-Palestinian archaeology debate in its American institutional and intellectual contexts / Theory and method in biblical archaeology / The relationship between archaeology and the Bible : expectations and reality / Integrating faith, the Bible, and archaeology : a review of the "Andrews University way" of doing archaeology / The North Sinai Archaeological Project's excavations at Tell el-Borg (Sinai) : an example of the "new" biblical archaeology? / Ziony Zevit -- Thomas W. Davis -- David Merling -- Randall W. Younker -- James K. Hoffmeier. Homer and archaeology : minimalists and maximalists in classical context / A new working hypothesis for the identification of Migdol / Deconstructing and reconstructing the united monarchy : house of David or tent of David (current trends in Iron Age chronology) / Amorites and Israelites : invisible invaders--modern expectation and ancient reality / Sumer and the Bible : a matter of proportion / Ancient Israel's literary heritage compared with Hittite textual data / Edwin Yamauchi -- Benjamin Edidin Scolnic -- Steven M. Ortiz -- Alan Millard -- William W. Hallo -- Harry A. Hoffner, Jr. Genesis in history and tradition : the Syrian background of Israel's ancestors, reprise / Multiple-month ritual calendars in the West Semitic world : Emar 446 and Leviticus 23 / The repopulation of Samaria (2 Kings 17:24, 27-31) in light of recent study / Methodological issues in reconstructing language systems from epigraphic fragments / The role of context and the promise of archaeology in biblical interpretation from early Judaism to post modernity / Daniel E. Fleming -- Richard S. Hess -- K. Lawson Younger, Jr. -- Cynthia L. Miller -- John M. Monson. Ancient Near Eastern mythography as it relates to historiography in the Hebrew Bible : Genesis 3 and the cosmic battle / "Splendid truths" or "prodigious commotion"? : ancient Near Eastern texts and the study of the Bible / Can we write a history of Israel today? / Richard E. Averbeck -- David B. Weisberg -- Andrew G. Vaughn.