Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

After the "myth of the empty land" / Hans M. Barstad -- The land lay desolate: / Lisbeth S. Fried -- Where is the "myth of the empty land" to be found? / B. Oded -- Periodization / Sara Japhet -- Bethel in the neo-Babylonian period / Joseph Blenkinsopp -- The relationship of the priestly genealogies to the history of the high priesthood in Jerusalem / Gary N. Knoppers -- Epoch and genre / Yairah Amit -- Gibeon and the Gibeonites revisited / Diana Edelman -- The fasts in the book of Zechariah and the fashioning of national remembrance / Yair Hoffman -- Nebuchadnezzar II and the Old Testament / Ronald H. Sack -- Babylonian strategies of imperial control in the West -- David Vanderhooft -- Neo-Babylonian military operations other than war in Judah and Jerusalem / John W. Betlyon -- Nabonidus in Arabia and Judah in the neo-Babylonian period / André Lemaire -- Ideology and archaeology in the neo-Babylonian period / C. E. Carter -- Demographic changes in Judah between the seventh and the fifth Centuries B.C.E. / Oded Lipschits -- The province of Samaria (Assyrian Samerina) in the late Iron Age (Iron Age III) / Adam Zertal -- Tell en-Naṣbeh and the problem of the material culture of the sixth century / Jeffrey R. Zorn -- Settlement of the Jews at Elephantine and the Arameans at Syene / Bezalel Porten -- The representation of foreigners in neo- and late-Babylonian legal documents (eighth through second centuries B.C.E.) / Ran Zadok.