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Preface to the Second Edition | |
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Preface to the First Edition | |
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List of Abbreviations | |
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The Old Testament as Theological Witness | |
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Key topics | |
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Approaches to OT theology | |
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Canon and scripture | |
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Authority | |
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Text and context (ancient and modern) | |
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The Created Order and the Re-creation of Broken Order | |
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Key topics | |
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Creation and Creator | |
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The human role | |
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Broken creation | |
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Primeval history | |
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Key texts | |
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Gen 1-11 | |
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Promises Made, Threatened, and Fulfilled | |
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Key topics | |
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The promise to the ancestors | |
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The Joseph story | |
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Key texts | |
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Gen 12-50 | |
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Bondage, Exodus, Wilderness | |
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Key topics | |
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Bondage in Egypt | |
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The Exodus God | |
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The role of Moses | |
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Liberation/salvation/deliverance | |
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The wilderness | |
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Key texts | |
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Exod 1-18, selected psalms | |
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The Structures of Covenant Life | |
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Key topics | |
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The theophany at Sinai | |
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Covenant-nature and structures | |
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Decalogue/law | |
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Sacrifice and holiness | |
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Key texts | |
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Exod 19-40, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy | |
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"The People of the Land" | |
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Key topics | |
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Conflict with previous inhabitants | |
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Holy war | |
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The role of the land | |
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Settlement and tribal league | |
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Key texts | |
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Joshua, Judges | |
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The Rise of the Monarchy | |
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Key topics | |
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Rise of kingship | |
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Emerging nation and new roles of leadership | |
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Pivotal role of David | |
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Solomonic rule | |
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Temple worship with psalms | |
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Key texts | |
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1-2 Samuel, 1 Kgs 1-11, selected psalms | |
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Kings and Prophets in the Divided Kingdom | |
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Key topics | |
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Division of the kingdom | |
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Nationhood among the empires | |
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Conflict with the Baalists | |
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Elijah and Elisha | |
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Nature of early prophecy | |
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Temple worship and the psalms | |
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Key texts | |
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1 Kgs 12-2 Kgs 13, selected psalms | |
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Prophecy and Reform: From Jeroboam to Josiah | |
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Key topics | |
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The nature of classical prophecy | |
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The eighth-century prophets and their context | |
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Deuteronomic Reform | |
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Key texts | |
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2 Kgs 14-25, Amos, Hosea, Micah, Isa 1-39, Deuteronomy, Zephaniah | |
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Collapse/Exile/Hope | |
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Key topics | |
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Jeremiah and the national crisis | |
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Destruction and exile | |
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Exile as historical and theological crisis | |
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The image of Babylon | |
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Lament | |
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Hope in the midst of exile | |
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Key texts | |
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Jeremiah, Lamentations, Nahum, Habakkuk, Ezekiel, Isa 40-55 | |
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Wisdom, Order, Protest | |
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Key topics | |
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Wisdom theology | |
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Key texts | |
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Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, selected psalms | |
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New Life, Renewed Community, New Crises | |
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Key topics | |
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Return, the rebuilding of the temple, and the reconstitution of the community | |
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Torah and temple | |
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Identity and conflict in the community and among the nations | |
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Crisis and apocalyptic | |
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The final shape of the Psalter | |
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Key texts | |
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1-2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Remaining Minor Prophets, Isa 56-66, Song of Songs, Daniel, Ruth, Esther, selected psalms | |
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Scripture Index | |
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Topical Index | |