This volume celebrates the contribution of Diana V. Edelman to the field and celebrates her personally as researcher, teacher, mentor, colleague, and mastermind of new research paths and groups. It salutes her unconventional, constantly thinking and rethinking outside the box and her challenging of established consensuses. It includes essays addressing biblical themes and texts, archaeological fieldwork, historical method, social memory and reception history. Contributors include Yairah Amit, James Anderson, Bob Becking, Ehud Ben Zvi, Kare Berge, Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley, Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher, Lester L. Grabbe, Philippe Guillaume, David Hamidovic, Lowell K. Handy, Maria Hausl, Kristin Joachimsen, Christoph Levin, Aren M. Maeir, Lynette Mitchell, Reinhard Muller, Jorunn Okland, Daniel Pioske, Thomas Romer, Benedetta Rossi, Cynthia Shafer-Elliott, Jason Silverman, Steinar Skarpnes, Pauline A. Viviano, Anne-Mareike Wetter.

Cynthia Shafer-Elliott is Associate Dean of the Faculty of Theology and Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible & Archaeology at Jessup University. Kristin Joachimsen is Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, MFNorwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society. Ehud Ben Zvi is a Professor Emeritus in the department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta. Pauline A. Viviano is an Associate Professor Emerita of Theology at Loyola University Chicago where she taught for thirty-five years.

Ehud Ben Zvi

Kristin Joachimsen

Cynthia Shafer-Elliott

Pauline A. Viviano