Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Biography and Curriculum Vitae -- Prolegomena -- A Brief Professional Biography of Mishael Maswari Caspi -- Curriculum Vitae of Mishael M. Caspi -- Poetry and Music -- Le 'Chaim' - To Life. Four Poems -- Palestrina's Motivic Symbolism in the Offertory Motet "In Die Ascensionis Domini" (Psalm 46V) -- Lord and Lady: Old Ideas Served Up Anew in Leonard Cohen's Lyrics -- Archaeological and Historical Studies -- Did the Tenth Century B.C.E. Only Exist at Tzer/Et-Tell/Bethsaida? -- From King David to Jesus -- A Roman Coin from Bethsaida (et-Tell) -- Zodiac and Time in Byzantine Palestine -- Between Immigration and Isolationism -- The Zionist Revolution: Quo Vadis? -- Literary Studies -- The Place (maqom) in the Story of Jacob's Dream at Beth-El: Two Readings -- The Feminine Personification of Wisdom and the "Wise Woman" as a "Persona" -- Delusions of Grandeur: Revision through Introduction in Judges 6-9 -- The Wilderness of the Universe: Reality versus Theology in the Book of Job -- Sexual Metaphors of Field (sadeh) and Food as Keys to Interpretation in the Hebrew Bible -- The Charismatic Worldview of Proverbs -- Apocalyptic as Delusion: Jesus' Main Problem -- Innuendo as a Rhetorical Strategy: Davidic Traditions as a Subtext of Hebrews -- Personal Reflections -- Reflection -- Being a Dialogue with Mishael Caspi -- My Father -- Mishael Caspi: Teacher, Scholar, Poet, and Story-teller Celebration of a Friendship -- Misha Caspi -- Mishael Caspi