This volume contains 24 essays on the history and language of the Old Testament and on the transmission of the Hebrew and Greek texts. In terms of chronology, the essays extend from the mid 2nd millennium BCE (archeology and texts of the Tanakh; religious reforms under Pharaoh Akhenaten), through the period of the Old Kingdom (Saul and David) and up to the Maccabean period and the oldest transmission of the Old Testament text.