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| Preface | |
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| List of Boxes, Tables, and Illustrations | |
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| The Bible: An Overview | |
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| Why we Read the Bible | |
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| The Old Testament and the Hebrew Bible (Tanak) | |
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| The New Testament How the Bible Was Formed and Handed Down to Us How the Bible Became Available in English | |
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| The Bible and Modern Scholarship | |
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| The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) | |
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| History and Geography of the Near East | |
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| Prologe to the Biblical World Mesopotamia, Site of the World''s | |
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| First Urban Civilization Egypt | |
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| The First National State Canaan and Israel Alexander''s | |
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| Conquests and the Hellenistic Era | |
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| The Roman Occupation of Judea | |
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| The Promised Land | |
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| The God of Israel: A Composite Portrait | |
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| The Names of God Yahweh: Leader of the Divine Council | |
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| Roles and Characteristics of the Biblical God | |
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| God in the New Testament | |
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| The Torah: Five Books of Divine Instruction (The Pentateuch) | |
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| Who Wrote the "Books of Moses"? | |
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| The Documentary Hypotheses: Four Sources of the Pentateuch) | |
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| Some Literary Forms in the Pentateuch Genesis Exodus | |
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| Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy | |
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| The Prophets (Nevi''im) | |
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| I: The Deuteronomistic History | |
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| The Deuteronomistic | |
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| Theory of History Major Events and Their Meaning | |
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| Observing the Order of the Hebrew Bible Joshua Judges | |
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| 1 Samuel | |
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| 2 Samuel | |
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| 1 Kings | |
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| 2 Kings | |
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| The Prophets (Nevi''im) | |
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| II: Collections Attributed to Individual Prophets Spokespersons for God | |
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| The Three Great Crises Order of the Prophets'' Appearances Amos Hosea | |
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| Isaiah Micah Zephaniah Nahum Habakkuk Jeremiah Obadiah Ezekiel | |
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| "Second Isaiah" Haggai Zechariah "Third Isaiah" Joel Malachi Jonah | |
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| The Writings (Kethuvim): Books of Poetry, Wisdom, Short Fiction, and Sacred History | |
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| After the Exile: A Reinterpretation of Judah''s Religious | |
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| Mission Hebrew Poetry Psalms | |
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| Wisdom Literature Proverbs Job Ecclesiastes | |
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| Festival Scrolls Ruth Song of Songs | |
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| Lamentations Esther Reinterpreting Israel''s History for the Postexilic | |
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| World Ezra Nehemiah | |
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| 1 Chronicles | |
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| 2 Chronicles | |
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| Deuterocanonical, Apocalyptic, and Extracanonical Works | |
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| The Covenant People in the Hellenistic World | |
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| 1 Maccabees | |
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| 2 Maccabees Apocalyptic Literature and the Book of Daniel | |
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| Daniel Additions to Daniel Other Apocalyptic | |
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| Works 2 Esdras Pseudepigrapha | |
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| 1 Enoch (Ethiopic Book of Enoch) | |
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| 2 Enoch (Slavonic Book of Enoch) | |
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| Sibylline Oracles Other Deuterocanonical Writings (Books of the Apocrypha) | |
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| Tobit Judith Additions to Esther Baruch Ecclesiasticus (The Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach) | |
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| The Wisdom of Solomon (Wisdom) | |
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| Other Works of the Pseudepigrapha Letter of Aristeas Book of Jubilees | |
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| Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs Books of Adam and Eve | |
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| Between the Two Testaments: Hellenistic Culture and the Growth of Multiple | |
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| Judaisms Political Events Hellenistic Thought, Culture, and Religion | |
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| The Mystery of Religions | |
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| The Diverse World of First-Century Judaisms | |
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| The Messiah: First Century Expectations | |
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| The New Testament (The Christian Greek Scriptures) | |
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| The Books of the New Testament: The Gospels Literary Categories in the New | |
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| Testament The Synoptic Gospels Four Distinctive | |
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| Portraits of Jesus Mark''s Gospel Matthew''s Gospel Luke''s Gospel John''s Gospel | |
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| The Other Gospels: Additional Portraits of Jesus Contrasting | |
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| Portrayals of Jesus | |
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| The Gospel of Thomas Secret Mark | |
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| The Gospel of Peter Gospels about Jesus'' Infancy and Childhood | |
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| The Continuing Quest for the Historical Jesus Early Historical | |
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| References to Jesus Scholarly Portrayals of Jesus Some | |
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| General Agreements about the Historical Jesus Jesus'' Teachings about the Kingdom | |
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| A Christian History and the Pauline Letters | |
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| The Book of Acts: A Story of Christian Beginnings Paul and the Gentile | |
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| Mission 1 Thessalonians | |
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| 1 Corinthians | |
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| 2 Corinthians | |
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| Galatians Romans Phillipians Philemon | |
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| The Disputed Pauline Letters | |
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| 2 Thessalonians Colossians Ephesians The Pastoral Letters | |
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| 1 Timothy | |
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| 2 Timothy Titus | |
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| General Epistles and Some Visions of Endtime Hebrews and the Catholic ("General") | |
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| Epistles Hebrews James | |
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| 1 Peter Jude | |
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| 2 Peter | |
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| 1 John | |
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| 2 John | |
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| 3 John | |
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| Other Early Christian Letters and Tracts The Didache (Teaching of the Twelve Apostles) | |
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| 1 Clement The Epistle of Barnabus Visions of Endtime Revelation | |
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| The Apocalypse of Peter | |
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| The Judeo-Christian Bible and Subsequent History | |
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| The Growth of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian-Greek Scriptures | |
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| Shocks and Readjustments Glossary of Major Biblical Characters, Terms, and Concepts | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Credits Index | |