The conference was investigating the questions of temple building and temple cult in the Levant during the 2nd and 1st Millennium B.C. (Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age). The focus was resting on city temples, i.e. monumental buildings for the temple cult in urban centre sites. The various lectures presented new archaeological results as well as new historical and theological studies relating to temple building and temple cult in Ancient Israel, Phoenicia, Philistia and the Aramaic and Transjordanian cultures.