Mostly American, but also British and Danish colleagues of contemporary American biblical scholar Flanagan offer 16 essays on areas of the discipline to which he has made important contributions. Their topics include social marginality and the construction of space, space and sects in the Qumran Scrolls, modeling the Mosaic tabernacle, Michelangelo's David from the Piazza della Signoria to refrigerator doors, rethinking the origins of ancient Israel, the development of the social-scientific approach to the study of the ancient world, an Aegean perspective on the transformation of socio-religious reproduction, Bronze Age agriculture in the Dead Sea Basin, and shaping Palestinian history. Sheffield Academic Press in an imprint of Continuum. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR