Series Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction - Athalya Brenner-Idan, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Tel Aviv University, Israel

Part One: On Relationships
A. Leading Female Figures in Kings and Chronicles and Their Family Connections
1. Hearing Tamar’s voice - How the Margin Hears Differently: Contextual readings of 2 Samuel 13.1-22 - Charlene van der Walt, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
2. To Whom Do Jezebel’s Remains Belong? Challenges for an ‘Organic Exegete’ Facing Contextual Readings of 2 Kings 9.30-37 - Fernando Candido da Silva, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
3. Coveting the Vineyard: An Asian American Reading of 1 Kings 21 - Gale A. Yee, Episcopal Divinity School, USA
4. Juridical Impotence in the Naboth Story in the Context of Kenya’s New Land Laws - Gilbert Okuro Ojwang, Oakwood University, USA
5. Gendered Genealogies in Response to Fractured Pasts: Inquiring Processes of Othering in 1 Chronicles 1-9 from a German Perspective - Ingeborg Löwisch, University of Bern, Switzerland
B. The Medium Of En-dor
6. The Medium of En-dor and the Phenomenon of Divination in Twenty-First Century Israel - Ora Brison, University of Tel Aviv, Israel
7. The medium of En-dor Heard through the Medium of Music - Helen Leneman, Independent Scholar, USA

Part Two: On Issues
8. Reading the Psalms of 1 Chronicle 16. 8-36 in the Chinese and Biblical Contexts
Archie C.C Lee, Shandong University, China
9. Children in the Hebrew Bible and the Case of Samuel: From Personal Experience to Analysis - Naomi Steinberg, DePaul University, USA
10. Running in the Bible - Yael Shemesh, Bar Ilan University, Israel
11. Clothing, Adornment and Accoutrements as Cultural and Literary Signifiers in the ‘Historical’ Books - Heather McKay, Edge Hill University, UK
12. Male Royals and Their Ethnically Foreign Mothers: The Implications for Textual Politics, Athalya Brenner-Idan, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Tel Aviv University, Israel
Index of Scriptures
Index of Authors