Part I Mesopotamia: Sumerians, Walter R. Bodine; Babylonians, Bill T. Arnold; Assyrians, William C. Gwaltney Jr; Persians, Edwin M. Yamauchi. Part 2 Anatolia, Syria-Palestine and Eygpt: Hittites, Harry A. Hoffner Jr; Canaanites and Amorites, Keith N. Schoville; Phoenicians, William A. Ward; Arameans, Wayne T. Pitard; Philistines, David M. Howard Jr; Eygptians, James K. Hoffmeier. Part 3 Transjordan: Ammonites, Randall W. Younker; Moabites, Gerald L. Mattingley; Edomites, Kenneth G. Hoglund.