This volume contains nineteen essays on Old Testament archaeology and Biblical studies collected in memory of H. Neil Richardson. Contributors include: K Darr (Two unifying female images in the Book of Isaiah) ; S Parker (The Lachish Letters and officail reactions to prophecies) ; L Bechtel (The perception of shame within the divine-human relationship in Biblical Israel) ; W Dever (Archaeology, texts, and history-writing) ; I Sharon (Demographic aspects of the problem of the Israelite settlement) ; L Hopfe (Archaeological indications on the origins of Roman Mithraism) ; R Anderson (The use of Hebrew Scripture in Stephen's speech) ; W Farmer (The role of Isaiah in the development of the Christian canon) ; E Frerichs (The Bible in recent English translation) .