Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction / Lester L. Grabbe -- An end to the confusion? : why the Old Testament cannot be a Hellenistic book! / Rainer Albertz -- Deuteronomists, Persians, Greeks, and the dating of the Israelite tradition / Hans M. Barstad -- The Hellenistic period and ancient Israel : three preliminary statements / Bob Becking -- Jewgreek Greekjew : the Hebrew Bible is all Greek to me : reflections on the problematics of dating the origins of the Bible in relation to contemporary discussions of biblical historiography / Robert P. Carroll -- Judaeans in Egypt : Hebrew and Greek stories / Philip R. Davies -- Jewish historiography and scripture in the Hellenistic period / Lester L. Grabbe -- Who were the first real historians? : on the origins of critical historiography / Lester L. Grabbe -- The myth of Israel : between present and past / David M. Gunn -- How does one date an expression of mental history? : the Old Testament and Hellenism / Niels Peter Lemche -- A jigsaw without a model? : the date of Chronicles / Kai Peltonen -- The Bible and Hellenism : a response / Thomas L. Thompson -- The Old Testament : a Hellenistic book? / Niels Peter Lemche -- Reflections on the discussion / Lester L. Grabbe.