This volume was conceived and produced in honor of our dear colleague Benjamin H. Isaac, the Fred and Helen Lessing Professor of Ancient History Emeritus at Tel Aviv University, as well as, inter alia, an Israel Prize laureate, and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and of the American Philosophical Society. Some but not all of the articles were first presented in May 2015 in a conference at Tel Aviv University on the occasion of his retirement and seventieth birthday. We wish him many more fruitful years of scholarship.