Solomon and the historical endeavor -- Separating the Solomon of legend / J. Maxwell Miller -- King Solomon in his ancient context / Alan Millard -- Sources and composition in the history of Solomon / Nadav Naʼaman -- Le roi est mort, vive le roi! A Biblical argument for the historicity of Solomon / Ernst Axel Knauf -- On the dating and dates of Solomon's reign / Lowell K. Handy -- The cultural-political environment -- Egypt and East Africa / Kenneth A. Kitchen -- Sheba and Arabia / Kenneth A. Kitchen -- Phoenicians in the tenth century BCE: a sketch of an outline / Lowell K. Handy -- Inland Syria and the East-of-Jordan region in the first millennium BCE before the Assyrian intrusions / Mark W. Chavalas -- "How the mighty are fallen": the Philistines in their tenth century context / Carl S. Ehrlich -- Assyria and Babylonia in the tenth century BCE / Steven W. Holloway -- Archaeology and the reign of Solomon -- Archaeology and the "Age of Solomon": a case study of archaeology and historiography / William G. Dever.