RARE collection of 24 studies in the historical approach to Solomon and 10th-century BC Judah and Israel with archaeological surveys of the neighboring regions, sociological surveys, literary readings of the texts and suggestions for further research and indexes, edited by Lowell K. Handy - Senior Lecturer in Bible at the Theology Department of Loyola University of Chicago. The book comprises 24 chapters divided into 5 parts: 1) Solomon and the Historical Endeavor; 2) The Cultural-Political Environment; 3), Archaeology and the Reign of Solomon. 4) Sociological Approaches; 5) Historiography. The authors are: J. Maxwell Miller, Alan Millard, Nadav Na`aman, Ernst Axel Knauf, Lowell K. Handy, Kenneth A. Kitchen, Mark W. Chavalas, Carl S. Ehrlich, Steven W. Holloway, William G. Dever, Hermann Michael Niemann, David C. Hopkins, Niels Peter Lemche, Pauline A. Viviano, Louis H. Feldman, Stuart Lasine, Gary N. Knoppers, Mark A. Throntveit, Linda S. Shearing, Sandra R. Shimoff, David Jobling. 245x157mm. XX+539 pages. Blue cloth Hardcover with dust-jacket. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Jacket edges slightly worn. Cover upper corners bumped. Spine edges slightly bumped. Front whitepage upper corner stained. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare