Chapter I: "History from Things": on history and history-writing. Excursus I: a critique of the "European Seminar on Methodology in Israel's History," 1998-2010
Chapter II. Prelude: the physical and cultural setting at the end of the Bronze Age
Chapter III. The emergence of Israel in the light of history. Excursus I: Rainey's Transjordanian Shasu as "Earliest Israel Excursis II: Finkelstein's "Sedentarized Pastoralists"
Chapter IV. The rise of Territorial States: the 10th Cent Excursus I. C14 dates of Megiddo and Tel Rehov
Chapter V. The consolidation of the State. The Iron II B Period (9th-8th cent.)
Chapter VI. Iron IIC: Judah in the 7th Century.
