Introduction / Baruch Halpern and Kenneth S. Sacks
Zeus and Prometheus : Greek adaptations of ancient Near Eastern myths / Kurt A. Raaflaub
The theogony and the Enuma Elish : city-state creation myths / Stephen Scully
Achaemenid propaganda and oral traditions : a reassessment of Herodotus' early Persian logoi / Jonathan David
Evidence of peace and war in Persian period Yehud / John W. Betlyon
Alphabetic writing in the Mediterranean world : transmission and appropriation / Andre Lemaire
The name of the Prophet Hăbaqqûq / David S. Vanderhooft
Amurca : a Semitic loanword? / Eric Lee Welch
Twin peaks : from Mt. Saphon to the Pillars of Herakles / Assaf Yasur-Landau
A cache of terracotta votives from Mendes : elements of popular religion in the Axial Age / Susan Redford
The origin and termination of the foreign colony-garrison at Elephantine / Donald Redford
When chimaeras were chimaeras / Baruch Halpern
Medicine and mathematics in fifth-century Greece and the question of Near Eastern influence / Markus Asper
Who markets ideas? : elite and non-elite transmission of culture and technology / Kenneth S. Sacks.