An exceptionally informed update in a fast-moving area of discovery and interpretation, covering settlement patterns, iconography, cult, palaeography, and the archeology of certain sites. Spatial archeology and settlement patterns are covered by A. Zertal (Samaria), A. Ofer (Judah), G. Lehmann (the Akko Plain), and S. Gibson (the hill country). Religion and iconography are represented by A. Biran and Z. Herzog on temples at Dan and Arad, R. Kletter and K. Prag on clay figurines and other cult objects, T. Ornan on seals and pendants portraying ishtar, and N. Franklin on the iconography of the wall relief in Room V at Sargon's palace in Khorsabad. The book also features M. Steiner on urban developement in Jerusalem during Iron Age II, A. Mazar with ata from Iron Age IIBeth Shean, and P. Bienkowski and L. Sedman on finds from Busayra, the capital of Edom.
