Crossing borders: on five Norwegian Bible scholars / Magne Sæbo -- Intertextuality and Hebrew Bible / Kirsten Nielsen -- Intertextuality and the "Final Form" of the text / John Barton -- Types of Biblical intertextuality / Michael Fishbane -- (Mis)use of intertextuality in Qoheleth Exegesis / Antoon Schoors -- Genese xviii 6, intertextualité et interprétation: "Tout fait farine au bon moulin" / Jean Louis Ska -- Rhetoric of recollection / Patricia K. Tull -- Gate of Megiddo and the debate on the 10th century / Baruch Halpern -- No more grapes form the vineyard? A plea for a historical critical approach in the study of the Old Testament / Bob Becking -- Can Biblical texts be dated linguistically? Chronological perspectives in the historical study of Biblical Hebrew / Avi Hurvitz -- Onomastik zwischen linguistik und geschichte / Stig Norin -- Zur funktion der soziologie im studium des Alten Testaments / Christa Schäfer-Lichtenberger -- Writing Israel's history at the end of the twentieth century / Lester L. Grabbe -- Kinneret and Naftali / Ernst Axel Knauf -- Histoire impériale et histoire régionale. A propos de l'histoire de Juda dans l'Empire achéménide / Pierre Briant -- Clio's dilemma: the changing face of history-writing / Diana Edelman -- Israelite and Near Eastern historiography / Amélie Kuhrt -- In the stable with the Dwarves: testimony, interpretation, faith and the history of Israel / Iain Provan -- Problems of genre and historicity with Palestine's inscriptions / Thomas L. Thompson -- Ugaritic studies and the Hebrew Bible, 1968-1998 (with an Excursus on Judean monotheism and the Ugaritic texts) / Mark S. Smith -- Deuteronomists between history and theology / Graeme Auld -- Biblical wisdom literature at the end of the Modern Age / Gerald T. Sheppard -- Psalmenforschung nach Hermann Gunkel und Sigmund Mowinckel / Erich Zenger -- Qumran et le texte de l'Ancien testament / Émile Puech -- Future of Old Testament theology / Mark G. Brett -- Von Stand und Zukunft der alttestamentlichen Wissenschaft / Otto Kaiser.