Benedikt Hensel/Stephen Germany: Introduction - Aren Maeir: On Defining Israel: Or, Let's do the Kulturkreislehre Again! - Hannes Bezzel: Who are the Philistines in the Books of Samuel? - Ann E. Killebrew: The Philistines in the Books of Samuel: An Archaeological Perspective - John Will Rice/Matteo Bächtold: Tradents of the Lost Ark: The Ark of the Covenant as an Object of Discourse on Divine and Human Kingship - Jürg Hutzli: Proximity to David, Proximity to Yhwh: Foreigners in the David Narratives - Cynthia Edenburg: In Search of Amalek: The Pursuit of an Historical Referent in 1 Sam 30 - Zachary Thomas and Erez Ben-Yosef: Copper, Nomads, and Kings: Rethinking the Social and Historical Background of the Books of Samuel - Stephen Germany/Assaf Kleiman: Arameans in the Books of Samuel: Literary, Historical, and Archaeological Perspectives - Walter Bührer: The Long Shadow of the Gibeonites in the Account of Saul's Post-mortem Rejection and Restitution (2 Sam 21:1-14) - Benedikt Hensel/Stephen Germany: Shifting Trends in the Study of Non-Israelite Groups in the Books of Samuel
