Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1. Hazael's empire in recent scholarship; 2. History and the Bible; 3. Hazael's empire in archaeological sources; 4. Hazael's empire in West-Semitic epigraphic sources; 5. The Assyrian inscriptions of Shalmaneser III; 6. The Assyrian inscriptions of Adad-nirari III; 7. The Eponyms; 8. Commentary on the Assyrian sources; 9. Hazael in extra-biblical sources: a conclusion; 10. The Hazael paradigm in the books of Kings; 11. The Hazael paradigm in the book of the Twelve; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index
