This hefty volume is a collection of thirty-six previously published essays—some translated into English for the first time—by a preeminent Israeli historian and archaeologist. The essays provide a rather comprehensive survey of the history of Judah across about 600 years in the first millennium BCE. Five papers deal with the Assyrian period; seven papers relate to Babylonian rule; six papers deal with the Persian period; three papers focus on Jerusalem's history and archaeology; four papers deal with the region of Benjamin; and eleven papers concern biblical studies. As the book's subtitle suggests, the essays are historical in method and rely on immense archaeological data.
Tyler Mayfield (Mon,) studied this question.