"This is an extended and updated version of the Hebrew book [Mi-naṿadut li-melukhah] (published in Jerusalem in 1990) ... All the articles were revised and updated, and two papers are published in this volume for the first time"--P. 14.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Upper Galilee in the Late Bronze-Iron I transition / Rafael Frankel -- Iron I in Lower Galilee and the margins of the Jezreel Valley / Zvi Gal -- "To the land of the Perizzites and the Giants": on the Israelite settlement in the hill country of Manasseh / Adam Zertal -- Jerusalem and its vicinity in Iron Age I / Amihai Mazar -- "All the hill country of Judah": from a settlement fringe to a prosperous monarchy / Avi Ofer -- The Beer-Sheba Valley: from nomadism to monarchy / Ze'ev Herzog -- The emergence of Israel: a phase in the cyclic history of Canaan in the third and second millenia BCE / Israel Finkelstein -- Socio-political transformations in the central hill country in the Late Bronze-Iron I transition / Shlomo Bunimovitz -- Theoretical speculations on the transition from nomadism to monarchy / Juval Portugali -- The "Conquest of Canaan" in the Book of Joshua and in history -- Nadav Na'aman -- Egyptians, Canaanites, and Philistines in the period of the emergence of Israel / Itamar Singer -- Subsistence economy in Iron Age I / Baruch Rosen.

The cult-stands from Taanach: aspects of the iconographic tradition of Early Iron Age cult objects in Palestine / Pirhiya Beck.