[see also the bibliographies on Archaeology, on so-called Minimalism, and on Specific historical periods]
The bibliography is divided into two main sections as follows:
Abadie, P., L'histoire d'Israël entre mémoire et relecture (LD 229; Paris: Cerf, 2009).
Ahlström, G. W., The History of Ancient Palestine from the Palaeolithic Period to Alexander's Conquest (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press / Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993).
Arnold, B. T. – R. S. Hess (eds.), Ancient Israel's History: An Introduction to Issues and Sources (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2014).
Bordreuil, P. – F. Briquel-Chatonnet, Le temps de la Bible. Préface de Javier Teixidor (Folio/Histoire; Paris: Gallimard, 2000).
Briend, J., Textes du Proche-Orient ancien et histoire d'Israël (Paris: Cerf, 1977).
Bright, J., A History of Israel (Philadelphia: Westminster / London: SCM, 11959, 21972, 31981).
Bright, J., A History of Israel. With Introduction and Appendix by William P. Brown (4th ed.; Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2000). [This posthumous work (John Bright 1908-1995) consists of Bright's unchanged third edition of 1981 together with two new sections by W. P. Brown: Introduction (1-22) and Appendix (465-485).]; = La historia de Israel . Trad. V. Morla Asensio (Biblioteca manual DDB, 35; Bilbao: Editorial Desclée de Brouwer, 2003).
Castel, F., Histoire d'Israël et de Juda: des origines au II siècle après Jésus-Christ (Dossiers pour l'animation biblique; Paris: Le Centurion, 1983); = The History of Israel and Judah in the Old Testament (New York: Paulist Press, 1985); = Storia d'Israele e di Giuda dalle origini al II secolo d.C. (Cinisello Balsamo [Milano]: Edizioni Paoline, 1987); = Historia de Israel y de Judá: Desde los orígenes hasta el siglo II d.C. Quinta edición (Colección Materiales de Trabajo; Estella [Navarra]: Verbo Divino, 51998).
Cazelles, H., Histoire politique d'Israël des origines à Alexandre le Grand (Petite Bibliothèque des sciences bibliques, 1; Paris: Desclée, 1982); = Historia política de Israel desde los orígines a Alejandro Magno (Introducción a la lectura de la Biblia; Madrid: Ediciones Cristiandad, 1984); = Storia politica di Israele dalle origini ad Alessandro Magno (Piccola Enciclopedia Biblica, 1: Roma: Borla, 1985); = História Política de Israel (das origens até Alexandre Magno) (São Paulo: Paulus, 1986).
Clauss, M., Das Alte Israel: Geschichte, Gesellschaft, Kultur (C. H. Beck Wissen in der Beck'schen Reihe, 2073; München: Beck, 1999).
Clauss, M., Geschichte des Alten Israel (Oldenbourg Grundriss der Geschichte, 37; München: Oldenbourg, 2009).
Clements, R. E. (ed.), The World of Ancient Israel. Sociological, Anthropological and Political Perspectives. Essays by Members of the Society for Old Testament Study (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
Coogan, M. D. (ed.), The Oxford History of the Biblical World (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1998). A paperback edition, with the same title, was published in 2001 by the Oxford University Press; it lacks most of the illustrations found in the hardback edition and has different pagination for the various chapters, but the text remains the same.
Dever, W. G., Beyond the Texts: An Archaeological Portrait of Ancient Israel and Judah (Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2017).
Donner, H., Geschichte des Volkes Israel und seiner Nachbarn in Grundzügen. Teil 1: Von den Anfängen bis zur Staatenbildungszeit. Teil 2: Von der Königszeit bis zu Alexander dem Großen. Mit einem Ausblick auf die Geschichte des Judentums bis Bar Kochba (Grundrisse zum Alten Testament, 4/1-2; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 32000 / 2001 [11984 / 1986]); = História de Israel e dos povos vizinhos. I: Dos primórdios até a formação do Estado; II: Da época da divisão do Reino até Alexandre Magno (Estudos Bíblico-Teológicos AT, 9; São Leopoldo: Sinodal; Petrópolis: Vozes, 11997, 22000).
Ebeling, J. – J. E. Wright – M. Elliott – P. V. M. Flesher (eds.), The Old Testament in Archaeology and History (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2017).
Finkelstein, I. – N. A. Silberman, The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts (New York: The Free Press, 2001); = Le tracce di Mosè. La Bibbia tra storia e mito (Saggi 14; Roma: Carocci, 2002); = La Bible dévoilée: les nouvelles révélations de l'archéologie (Paris: Bayard, 2002); = Keine Posaunen vor Jericho. Die archäologische Wahrheit über die Bibel (München: C. H. Beck, 2002, 22003); = La Biblia desenterrada. Una nueva visión arqueológica del antiguo Israel y de los orígenes de sus textos sagrados (Historia antigua; Madrid: Siglo XXI de España Editores, 2003); = A Bíblia Não Tinha Razão (São Paulo, A Girafa, 2003).
Finkelstein, I. – N. A. Silberman, David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of Western Civilization (New York: Free Press, 2006); = David und Salomo. Archäologen entschlüsseln einen Mythos (München: Beck, 2006); = Les rois sacrés de la Bible. À la recherche de David et Salomon (Montrouge: Bayard, 2006); = David y Salomón. En busca de los reyes sagrados de la Biblia y de las raíces de la tradición occidental (Madrid: Siglo XXI de España Editores, 2007).
Finkelstein, I., Le Royaume biblique oublié (Travaux du Collège de France; Paris: Éditions Odile Jacob, 2013); = The Forgotten Kingdom: The Archaeology and History of Northern Israel (ANEM 5; Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2013); = Il regno dimenticato: Israele e le origini nascoste della Bibbia (Frecce 187; Roma: Carocci, 2014). The original publication was the French one. The English version can be downloaded freely here.
Fleming, D. E., The Legacy of Israel in Judah's Bible: History, Politics, and the Reinscribing of Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
Frevel, C., Geschichte Israels. 2., erweiterte und überarbeitete Auflage (Kohlhammer Studienbücher Theologie, 2; Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2018). [first ed. 2016; for the origins of this book see the Zenger & Frevel, Einleitung here]. English version: History of Ancient Israel (SBLABS 32; Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2023). [translated from the second German edition of 2018, with revisions]
Grabbe, L. L. (ed.), Can a 'History of Israel' Be Written? (JSOTSup 245; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997).
Grabbe, L. L. (ed.), Israel in Transition: From Late Bronze II to Iron IIa (c. 1250-850 B.C.E.). Volume 1: The Archaeology (LHB/OTS 491 – European Seminar on Historical Methodology, 7; London & New York: T & T Clark, 2008).
Grabbe, L. L. (ed.), Israel in Transition: From Late Bronze II to Iron IIa (c. 1250-850 B.C.E.). Volume 2: The Texts (LHB/OTS 521 – European Seminar on Historical Methodology, 8; London & New York: T & T Clark, 2010).
Grabbe, L. L., Ancient Israel: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It? Revised edition (London & New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017). [the first edition was published in 2007]
Grabbe, L. L. (ed.), The Hebrew Bible and History: Critical Readings (T&T Clark Critical Readings in Biblical Studies; London & New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2019).
Greenspahn, F. E. – P. Machinist (eds.), Classic Essays in Biblical History (Classic Essays in Jewish History; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019).
Hayes, J. H. – J. M. Miller (eds.), Israelite and Judaean History (OTL; London: SCM, 1977).
Herrmann, S., Geschichte Israels in alttestamentlicher Zeit. 2., überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage (München: Kaiser, 21980 [11973]); = A History of Israel in Old Testament Times (London: SCM / Philadelphia: Fortress, 21981, 11975); = Storia d'Israele: i tempi dell'Antico Testamento. 2a edizione (Strumenti; Brescia: Queriniana, 21979 [11977]); = Historia de Israel en la época del Antiguo Testamento (Biblioteca de Estudios Bíblicos; Salamanca: Sígueme, 21980).
Kaiser, W. C. – P. D. Wegner, A History of Israel: From the Bronze Age Through the Jewish Wars. Revised edition (Nashville, TN: B&H Academic, 2016). [first edition by Kaiser alone, 1998]
Kinet, D., Geschichte Israels (Die Neue Echter Bibel, Ergänzungsband 2 zum A.T.; Würzburg: Echter, 2001).
Kitchen, K. A., On the Reliability of the Old Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2003).
Knauf, E. A. – P. Guillaume, A History of Biblical Israel: The Fate of the Tribes and Kingdoms from Merenptah to Bar Kochba (Worlds of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean; Sheffield: Equinox, 2016).
Knauf, E. A. – H. M. Niemann, Geschichte Israels und Judas im Altertum (De Gruyter Studium; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021).
Lemaire, A. (ed.), Le Monde de la Bible: textes présentés par André Lemaire (Folio/Histoire; Paris: Gallimard, 1998); = El mundo de la Bíblia. Textos presentados por André Lemaire (Madrid: Editorial Complutense, 2000).
Lemche, N. P., Ancient Israel. A New History of Israelite Society (The Biblical Seminar, 5; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1988). [see below for the expanded new edition (2015)]
Lemche, N. P., The Israelites in History and Tradition (Library of Ancient Israel; Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1998).
Lemche, N. P., Ancient Israel: A New History of Israel (T&T Clark Cornerstones; London & New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015). [an expanded new edition of the 1988 work noted above]
Levin, C., Entwurf einer Geschichte Israels (Julius-Wellhausen-Vorlesung, 5; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017). [x + 45 pp]
Lipiński, E., A History of the Kingdom of Israel (OLA 275; Leuven: Peeters, 2018).
Lipiński, E., A History of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and Judah (OLA 287; Leuven: Peeters, 2020).
Liverani, M., Oltre la Bibbia. Storia antica di Israele (Storia e Società; Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2003); = Israel's History and the History of Israel (Bible World; London: Equinox, 2005); = Más allá de la Biblia: historia antigua de Israel (Serie mayor; Barcelona: Crítica, 2005); = La Bible et l'invention de l'histoire: Histoire ancienne d'Israël. Préface de Jean-Louis Ska (Paris: Bayard, 2008); = Para além da Bíblia: história antiga de Israel (São Paulo: Paulus & Loyola, 2008).
Matthews, V. H., A Brief History of Ancient Israel (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2002).
Matthews, V. H., The History of Bronze and Iron Age Israel (Essentials of Biblical Study; New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).
Merlo, P., Storia di Israele e Giuda nell'antichità (Guida alla Bibbia; Cinisello Balsamo [MI]: San Paolo, 2022).
Miller, J. M. – J. H. Hayes, A History of Ancient Israel and Judah. Second revised edition (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2006). [First edition: Philadelphia: Fortress / London: SCM, 1986]
Moore, M. B. – B. E. Kelle, Biblical History and Israel's Past: The Changing Study of the Bible and History (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2011).
Noll, K. L., Canaan and Israel in Antiquity: A Textbook on History and Religion. Second revised edition (New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2014). First edition: Canaan and Israel in Antiquity: An Introduction (The Biblical Seminar, 83; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001).
Noth, M., Geschichte Israels (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 11950, 21954 ... 61966); = Histoire d'Israël. Édition française revue par l'auteur (Bibliothèque historique; Paris: Payot, 1954); = The History of Israel. Second edition ( London: Adam & Charles Black, 21960); = Storia d'Israele (Biblioteca di cultura religiosa; Brescia: Paideia, 1975).
Oswald, W. – M. Tilly, Geschichte Israels von den Anfängen bis zum 3. Jahrhundert n. Chr. (Geschichte Kompakt; Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2016).
Peetz, M., Das biblische Israel: Geschichte – Archäologie – Geographie (Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 2018).
Pennacchini, B., Introduzione alla storia d'Israele nell'epoca dell'Antico Testamento (Convivium Assisiense - Instrumenta, 1; Assisi [PG]: Edizioni Porziuncola, 2000).
Perdue, L. G. – W. Carter, Israel and Empire: A Postcolonial History of Israel and Early Judaism (New York & London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2014).
Provan, I. – V. P. Long – T. Longman III, A Biblical History of Israel. Revised second edition (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2015). [first edition: 2003]
Schipper, B. U., Geschichte Israels in der Antike (C. H. Beck Wissen, 2887; München: C. H. Beck, 2018). English version: A Concise History of Ancient Israel: From the Beginnings Through the Hellenistic Era (Critical Studies in the Hebrew Bible, 11; University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns / Penn State University Press, 2019).
Schmitz, B., Geschichte Israels. 3., aktualisierte Auflage (Grundwissen Theologie: UTB Wissenschaft, 3547; Paderborn: Brill – Schöningh, 2022). [earlier editions: 2011 & 2015]
Shanks, H. (ed.), Ancient Israel: From Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple. Third revised edition (Washington, DC: Biblical Archaeology Society, 2011). [earlier editions: 1988 and 1999]
Soggin, J. A., Storia d'Israele: introduzione alla storia d'Israele e Giuda dalle origini alla rivolta di Bar Kochbà (Biblioteca di cultura religiosa, 44; Brescia: Paideia, 22002). The first edition was entitled Storia d'Israele. Dalle origini a Bar Kochbà. Con due appendici di Diethelm Conrad e Haim Tadmor (Biblioteca di cultura religiosa, 44; Brescia: Paideia, 1984). English translations: A History of Israel. From the Beginnings to the Bar Kochba Revolt, AD 135 (London: SCM, 1984); An Introduction to the History of Israel and Judah. Second, completely revised and updated edition (London: SCM, 21993); An Introduction to the History of Israel and Judah. Third edition (London: SCM, 31999) [this third English edition corresponds to the second Italian edition which was finally published in 2002]. French: Histoire d'Israël et de Juda. Introduction à l'histoire d'Israël et de Juda des origines à la révolte de Bar Kokhba (Le livre et le rouleau, 19; Bruxelles: Editions Lessius, 2004). German: Einführung in die Geschichte Israels und Judas. Von den Ursprüngen bis zum Aufstand Bar Kochbas (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1991). Spanish: Nueva Historia de Israel: de los orígines a Bar Kochba (Bilbao: Desclée De Brouwer, 1997) [translated from the now outdated first Italian edition of 1984)].
Vaux, R. de, Histoire ancienne d'Israël. Vol. I: Des origines à l'installation en Canaan. Vol. II: La période des Juges (EtBib; Paris: Gabalda, 1971 / 1973). [The work, planned in three large volumes, remained incomplete; what was ready of the second volume was edited after de Vaux's death (1971) by F. Langlamet and others.]; = La historia del Antiguo Israel. Vol. 1: Desde los origines a la entrada en Canaan. Vol. 2: Asentamiento en Canaan y periodo de los jueces (Madrid: Ediciones Cristiandad, 1975); = The Early History of Israel (London: Darton, Longman and Todd / Philadelphia: Westminster, 1978) [translation of Vols I and II together].
Vieweger, D., Geschichte der biblischen Welt, 1: Paläolithikum bis Bronzezeit. Mit zahlreichen Zeichnungen von Ernst Brückelmann (Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2019); Geschichte der biblischen Welt, 2: Eisenzeit. Mit zahlreichen Zeichnungen von Ernst Brückelmann (Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2019); Geschichte der biblischen Welt, 3: Persische bis römische Zeit. Mit einem Beitrag von Max Küchler, Markus Lau und Michael Krupp, sowie zahlreichen Zeichnungen von Ernst Brückelmann (Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2019).
Herrmann, S., "Geschichte Israels", TRE 12 (1984 [Lief. 5, 1984]) 698-740.
Lemche, N. P., et al., "Israel, History of", ABD III (1992) 526-576. Details: "Premonarchic Period" (N. P. Lemche: 526-545); "Archaeology and the Israelite 'Conquest'" (W. P. Dever: 545-558); "Monarchic Period" (L. J. Hoppe: 558-567); "Post-Monarchic Period" (R. P. Carroll: 567-576).
Weippert, M., "Israel und Juda", RlA 5 (1980 [Lief. 3-4, 1976]) 200-208.
Dever, W. G., "History from Things: On Writing New Histories of Ancient Israel", in F. E. Greenspahn – G. A. Rendsburg (eds.), Le-ma‘an Ziony: Essays in Honor of Ziony Zevit (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2017) 3-20.
Dubovský, P., "Israel and Judah: History and Society", in J. J. Collins – G. Hens-Piazza – B. Reid – D. Senior (eds.), The Jerome Biblical Commentary for the Twenty-First Century. With a Foreword by Pope Francis. Third fully revised edition (London & New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2022) 68-121.
Faust, A., "Between the Biblical Story and History: Writing an Archaeological History of Ancient Israel", in K. H. Keimer – G. A. Pierce (eds.), The Ancient Israelite World (Routledge Worlds; Abingdon, Oxon & New York: Routledge, 2023) 67-82.
Finkelstein, I., "History of Ancient Israel: Archaeology and the Biblical Record – the View from 2015", RivB 63 (2015) 371-392. Revised French version: "L'histoire de l'Israel ancien entre archéologie et texte biblique. État des lieux", in I. Finkelstein – T. Römer, Aux origines de la Torah. Nouvelles rencontres, nouvelles perspectives (Montrouge: Bayard, 2019) 15-55.
Finkelstein, I., "History, Historicity and Historiography in Ancient Israel", in J. Un-Sok Ro (ed.), Story and History: The Kings of Israel and Judah in Context (FAT II/105; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019) 15-30.
Frevel, C., "Die Geschichte ist zurück: neuere Literatur im Umfeld der Geschichte Israels", TRev 112 (2016) 3-24.
Grabbe, L. L., "The Big Max: Review of A Biblical History of Israel by Iain Provan, V. Philips Long, and Tremper Longman III", in L. L. Grabbe (ed.), Enquire of the Former Age: Ancient Historiography and Writing the History of Israel (LHB/OTS 554 – European Seminar in Historical Methodology, 9; London & New York: T&T Clark International, 2011) 215-234. Reprinted in L. L. Grabbe (ed.), The Hebrew Bible and History: Critical Readings (T&T Clark Critical Readings in Biblical Studies; London & New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2019) 138-155.
Kratz, R. G., "Geschichte Israels und Judas", in R. G. Kratz, Historisches und biblisches Israel. Drei Überblicke zum Alten Testament. Zweite, durchgesehene und erweiterte Auflage (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017) 1-78. [first edition 2013, same pages]. English version: Historical and Biblical Israel: The History, Tradition, and Archives of Israel and Judah (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015). Edizione italiana: Israele storico e biblico: storia, tradizione, archivi. Edizione italiana a cura di Paola Mollo (Subsidia biblica, 54; Roma: Gregorian & Biblical Press, 2020).
Lemche, N. P., "The History of Israel… but What is This Israel? Drawing the Conclusions from Recent Research Into the History of Ancient Palestine", in I. Hjelm – H. Taha – I. Pappe – T. L. Thompson (eds.), A New Critical Approach to the History of Palestine: Palestine History and Heritage Project, 1 (Copenhagen International Seminar; Abingdon, Oxon & New York: Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019) 341-352.
Lipschitz, O., "The History of Israel in the Biblical Period", in A. Berlin – M. Z. Brettler (eds.), The Jewish Study Bible, Jewish Publication Society TANAKH Translation. Second edition (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2014) 2107-2119.
Naʾaman, N., "Does Archaeology Really Deserve the Status of a 'High Court' in Biblical Historical Research?", in B. Becking – L. L. Grabbe (eds.), Between Evidence and Ideology: Essays on the History of Ancient Israel read at the Joint Meeting of the Society for Old Testament Study and the Oud Testamentisch Werkgezelschap, Lincoln, July 2009 (OTS 59; Leiden: Brill, 2011) 165-183. Reprinted in L. L. Grabbe (ed.), The Hebrew Bible and History: Critical Readings (T&T Clark Critical Readings in Biblical Studies; London & New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2019) 56-71.
Niehr, H., "Neuere Forschungen zur Geschichte Israels. Drei Fallbeispiele", TQ 200 (2020) 3-20.
Pfoh, E., "Rethinking the Historiographical Impulse: The History of Ancient Israel as a Problem", SJOT 32 (2018) 92-105.
Provan, I. – V. P. Long – T. Longman III, "'Who Is the Prophet Talking About, Himself or Someone Else?' (Acts 8.34): A Response to Lester Grabbe's Review of A Biblical History of Israel", in L. L. Grabbe (ed.), Enquire of the Former Age: Ancient Historiography and Writing the History of Israel (LHB/OTS 554 – European Seminar in Historical Methodology, 9; London & New York: T&T Clark International, 2011) 235-252. Reprinted in L. L. Grabbe (ed.), The Hebrew Bible and History: Critical Readings (T&T Clark Critical Readings in Biblical Studies; London & New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2019) 156-168.
Römer, T., "Biblical Historiography and History: The Books of Kings", in J. Un-Sok Ro (ed.), Story and History: The Kings of Israel and Judah in Context (FAT II/105; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019) 53-65.
Ska, J. L., "The 'History of Israel': Its Emergence as an Independent Discipline", in M. Sæbø (ed.), Hebrew Bible / Old Testament. III: From Modernism to Post-Modernism (The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries). Part I: The Nineteenth Century – a Century of Modernism and Historicism. In co-operation with P. Machinist and J. L. Ska SJ (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013) 307-345.
Tobolowsky, A., "Israelite and Judahite History in Contemporary Theoretical Approaches", CBR 17.1 (Oct. 2018) 33-58.
Albertz, R., Die Exilszeit: 6. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Biblische Enzyklopädie, 7; Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2001); = Israel in Exile: The History and Literature of the Sixth Century B.C.E. (SBL Biblical Encyclopedia, 5 [formerly: SBL Studies in Biblical Literature, 3]; Atlanta, GA: SBL, 2003 / Leiden: Brill, 2004); = Israele in esilio: storia e letteratura nel VI secolo a.C. (Introduzione allo studio della Bibbia. Supplementi, 42; Brescia: Paideia, 2009).
Dietrich, W., Die frühe Königszeit in Israel: 10. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Biblische Enzyklopädie, 3; Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1997). Updated English version: The Early Monarchy in Israel: The Tenth Century B.C.E. (SBL Biblical Encyclopedia, 3; Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature / Leiden: Brill, 2007).
Fritz, V., Die Entstehung Israels im 12. und 11. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Biblische Enzyklopädie, 2; Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1996); = The Emergence of Israel in the Twelfth and Eleventh Centuries B.C.E. (SBL Biblical Encyclopedia, 2; Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011 / Leiden: Brill, 2012).
Gerstenberger, E. S., Israel in der Perserzeit. 5. und 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Biblische Enzyklopädie, 8; Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2005); = Israel in the Persian Period: The Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.E. (SBL Biblical Encyclopedia, 8; Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature / Leiden: Brill, 2011).
Haag, E., Das hellenistische Zeitalter. Israel und die Bibel im 4. bis 1. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Biblische Enzyklopädie, 9; Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2003).
Lemche, N. P., Die Vorgeschichte Israels: Von den Anfängen bis zum Ausgang des 13. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Biblische Enzyklopädie, 1; Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1996). Slightly updated English version: Prelude to Israel's Past. Background and Beginnings of Israelite History and Identity (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1998).
Nelson, R. D., Historical Roots of the Old Testament (1200-63 BCE) (Biblical Encyclopedia, 13; Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2014). [only in English]
Schoors, A., Die Königreiche Israel und Juda im 8. und 7. Jahrhundert v. Chr.: die assyrische Krise (Biblische Enzyklopädie, 5; Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1998); = The Kingdoms of Israel and Judah in the Eighth and Seventh Centuries B.C.E. (Biblical Encyclopedia, 5; Atlanta, GA : Society of Biblical Literature, 2013).