Introduction: An Unexpected Discovery

Part I. The Players. 1. Dealers and Destructions ; 2. Budge ; 3. Sayce ; 4. The Young Berliners

Part II. The Fellowship of the Kings. 5. Šarru Rabû ; 6. An Arzawan Alliance? ; 7. All's Fair in Love and War (and Diplomacy) ; 8. The Hand of Nergal

Part III. The Rules and the Race. 9. No No Necho ; 10. Lost in Translation ; 11. Flights of Fancy ; 12. Winckler and Abel

Part IV. Lab'ayu and Sons, Inc. 13. The Lab'ayu Affair ; 14. The Sons of Lab'ayu

Part V. The Game : Winners and Losers. 15. Jerusalem, O Jerusalem ; 16. Publish or Perish ; 17. Bezold and Budge, Finally ; 18. Facts and Alternative Facts

Part VI. Amurru, Byblos, and Jerusalem. 19. The Dog of His House ; 20. Triple-A Roster ; 21. Gaslighting the Pharaoh ; 22. If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem

Part VII. The Social Networks and Globalized World of the Late Bronze Age. 23. It's a Small World After All ; 24. Three Degrees of Separation

Epilogue: After Amarna

Dramatis Personae.