Telling Contexts is a title that signifies in layers, not unlike an ancient Levantine tell or an old Hebrew poem. At base the title focalizes the two primary disciplines of the two honorees of this volume, archaeology (tell) and textual studies (texts). The essays, contributed by friends and colleagues of both honorees, are organized into four sections: Dimensions of Textuality, Judges, Texts and Ideas, and Archaeology.



Julie B. Deluty is Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Saint Joseph's University. She is the author of Prophet, Intermediary, King: The Dynamics of Mediation in the Biblical World and Old Babylonian Mari (Brill, 2024).



Heath D. Dewrell is Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Child Sacrifice in Ancient Israel.



F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp is the James Lenox Librarian and Professor of Old Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary. His most recent book is Divine Style: Walt Whitman and the King James Bible (Cambridge: OBP, 2024).