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| Illustrations and Aids | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Story of a People | |
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| The Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament | |
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| The Story of the Bible | |
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| The Creation of a People | |
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| The Beginnings of Israel | |
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| The Nature of the Tradition | |
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| The Oral Tradition | |
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| The Prologue to the Exodus | |
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| Population Unrest in the Fertile Crescent | |
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| The God of Israel's Ancestors | |
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| The Descent into Egypt | |
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| The Oppression in Egypt | |
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| Liberation from Bondage | |
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| The Role of Moses | |
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| The Disclosure of God's Name | |
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| The Contest with Pharaoh | |
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| The Victory at the Sea | |
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| Covenant in the Wilderness | |
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| Guidance in the Wilderness | |
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| The Covenant at Sinai | |
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| Covenant and Law | |
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| The Breaking of the Covenant | |
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| The Mosaic Faith | |
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| The Promised Land | |
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| A Land Flowing with Milk and Honey | |
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| Forty Years of Wandering | |
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| Detour via Transjordan | |
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| The Invasion of Canaan | |
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| Israel's Conquest of Canaan: The Deuteronomistic View | |
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| An Alternative View of the Conquest in Joshua and Judges 1 | |
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| The Nature of the Israelite Occupation | |
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| The Formation of the Tribal Confederacy | |
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| The Formation of an All-Israelite Epic | |
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| From Tradition to Literature | |
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| The Scope of the Old Epic Narrative | |
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| Overview of Israel's Epic Narrative | |
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| The Primeval History | |
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| The Ancestral History | |
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| The People's History | |
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| The Struggle Between Faith and Culture | |
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| Temptations of Canaanite Culture | |
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| Leaders in Crisis | |
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| The Decline of the Confederacy | |
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| The Last Judge of Israel | |
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| Israel Becomes Like the Nations | |
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| The Throne of David | |
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| A Time of International Favor | |
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| Israel's Rustic King | |
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| David, Architect of the Israelite State | |
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| Solomon in All His Glory | |
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| New Horizons of Faith | |
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| Prophetic Troublers of Israel | |
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| The Background of Prophecy | |
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| The Divided Kingdom | |
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| One Prophet Against Four Hundred | |
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| Elijah, the Tishbite | |
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| Elisha and the Closing Years of the Omri Dynasty | |
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| Fallen is the Virgin Israel | |
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| The Revolution of Jehu | |
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| The Age of Jeroboam II | |
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| The Herdsman from Tekoa | |
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| The Prophecy of Hosea | |
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| The Fall of Samaria | |
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| Judah's Covenant with Death | |
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| The Reign of Uzziah | |
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| The Book of Isaiah | |
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| Micah, A Rural Prophet | |
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| Isaiah's Later Career | |
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| The Rediscovery of Mosaic Torah | |
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| Differing Views of the Covenant | |
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| Manasseh, the Villain of Judah | |
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| New Outbursts of Prophecy | |
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| The Deuteronomic Reformation | |
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| The Book of Deuteronomy | |
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| The Renewal of the Covenant | |
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| Inadequacies of the Reform | |
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| Habakkuk's Watchtower of Faith | |
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| Faith and Nationalism | |
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| The Doom of the Nation | |
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| The Suffering Prophet | |
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| The Book of Jeremiah | |
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| In the Reign of Jehoiakim | |
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| Jeremiah's Confessions | |
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| In the Reign of Zedekiah | |
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| Beyond the Day of Doom | |
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| The Covenant Community Is Renewed | |
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| By the Waters of Babylon | |
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| The Jewish Dispersion | |
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| Ezekiel the Priest | |
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| Lamentation, Mourning, and Woe | |
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| The Promise of a New Beginning | |
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| Life Under Captivity | |
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| Preservation of the Tradition | |
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| The Priestly Point of View | |
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| The Dawn of a New Age | |
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| New World Horizons | |
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| The Poems of Second Isaiah | |
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| A Herald of Good Tidings | |
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| The Creator and Redeemer | |
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| A Light to the Nations | |
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| The Servant of YHWH | |
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| Victory Through Suffering | |
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| The Servant and the Messiah | |
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| The Continuing Isaiah Tradition | |
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| The Book of Isaiah as a Whole | |
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| A Kingdom of Priests | |
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| Cyrus' Edict of Liberation | |
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| The Work of the Chroniclers | |
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| Zerubbabel, the Branch | |
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| Reconstruction and Reform | |
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| Ezra, the Architect of Judaism | |
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| Nehemiah's Terms as Governor | |
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| The Law and the Prophets | |
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| The Praises of Israel | |
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| The Book of Psalms | |
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| Israel at Worship | |
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| Israel's Pilgrimage Festivals | |
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| The Book of Psalms as a Whole | |
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| The Beginning of Wisdom | |
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| The Wisdom of the East | |
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| Israel's Wisdom Literature | |
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| An Anthology of Proverbs | |
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| The Wise and the Foolish | |
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| The Skepticism of Ecclesiastes | |
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| The Book of Job | |
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| From Despair to Faith | |
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| The Unfinished Story | |
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| Tensions Within Judaism | |
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| The Hellenistic Era | |
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| The Evolution of Wisdom | |
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| The Resistance Movement | |
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| The Apocalypse of Daniel | |
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| The Kingdom That Is God's | |
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| Beyond the Hebrew Bible | |
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| Israel's Pilgrimage | |
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| Comprehensive Chronological Chart | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |