A tribute to Dr George M Landes on the occasion of his retirement as professor of Hebrew Bible Studies at Union Seminary and as Secretary of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Contributions aim to address the role of philology and archaeology in biblical studies, and include: Ruth Revisited (Edward F Campbell, Jr); Holy War Ideology and the Rapid Shift of Mood in Psalm 3 (Ee Kon Kim); No Small Thing: The "Overturning" of Nineveh in the Third Chapter of Jonah (Johanna W H van Wijk-Bos) and The Problem of Human Sacrifice in War: An Analysis of Judges 11 (Naomi Steinberg).