Abstract: Old Testament – New Testament – Archaeology – Ancient Near Eastern Studies: Mesopotamia – Ancient Near Eastern Studies: Egypt – Qumran Studies – Study of the Graeco-Roman World – Diaspora and Rabbinic Judaism – Language and Translation of the Old Testament – Language, Translation, Versions, and Text of the Apocrypha – Language and Translation of the New Testament – Ancient Versions and Textual Transmission of the Old Testament – Textual Transmission and Versions of the New Testament – Introduction: General Problems of Studying the Text of the Bible in order to Reconstruct History and Social Background – Israel to the End of the Persian Period: History, Social, Political, and Economic background – Israel from the Rise of Hellenisim to 70 CE – The Life and Teaching of Jesus and the Rise of Christianity – Priesthood, Temple(s), and Sacrifice – Law in the Old Testament – Scribes and Synagogues – Movements – Prophecy – Apocalyptic – Wisdom – Novella – Gospels – Letters – The Growth of the Old Testament – The Growth of the Apocrypha – The Growth of the New Testament – Authors, Books, and Readers in the Ancient World – Archaeology – Textual Criticism – Form, Source, and Redaction Criticism – Rhetorical and New Literary Criticism – Feminist Criticism and Related Aspects – Social, Political, and Ideological Criticism – Old Testament Theology – New Testament Theology – Biblical Theology – The Bible in Ethics – Jewish Interpretation of the Bible – Canon – Fundamentalism(s) – Historical Criticism and the Authority of the Bible

Keywords: Apocrypha, Bible, Canon, Christ, Christianity, Diaspora, Easter, Ethics, Fundamentalism, Gospel, Israel, Jesus, Judaism, Law, New Testament, Old Testament, Priest, Rabbi, Sacrifice, Temple, Theology, Wisdom, authority, Christian, discipline, General, prophecy, translation