Introduction and overview / Lester L. Grabbe -- Cityscape to landscape: the 'back to nature' theme in Isaiah 1-35 / Joseph Blenkinsopp -- City of chaos, city of stone, city of flesh: urbanscapes in prophetic discourses / Robert P. Carroll -- Proximity to the central Davidic citadel and the greater and lesser prophets / Robert B. Coote -- This land is my land: on nature as property in the Book of Ezekiel / Julie Galambush -- Sup-urbs or only hyp-urbs?: prophets and populations in ancient Israel and socio-historical method / Lester L. Grabbe -- The savage made civilized: an examination of Ezekiel 16.8 / S. Tamar Kamionkowski -- Reconstructing Haggai's Jerusalem: demographic and sociological considerations and the search for an adequate methodological point of departure / John Kessler -- The sociology of preindustrial cities / Ben D. Nefzger -- City as lofty as heaven: Arbela and other cities in neo-Assyrian prophecy / Martti Nissinen -- Jerusalem: an example of war in a walled city (Isaiah 3-4) / John D.W. Watts.