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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Abbreviations of the Books of the Bible with the Apocrypha | |
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| Introduction to the Study of the Bible | |
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| The Bible and Western Culture | |
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| The Roots of Western Civilization | |
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| The Cultural Influence of the Bible | |
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| What Is the Bible? | |
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| Approaches to the Bible | |
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| Methods and Tools for Studying the Bible | |
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| Types of Biblical Criticism | |
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| Related Disciplines | |
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| Tools and Reference Works | |
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| Consolidating the Results | |
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| The Origins and Development of the Bible | |
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| Formation of the Hebrew Bible | |
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| Formation of the Christian Bible | |
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| The Process of Translation | |
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| The Cultural and Geographic Context of the Bible | |
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| The Shape of the Ancient Near East | |
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| The Land Called Palestine | |
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| Vital Evidence: Archaeological Discoveries | |
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| Origins and Early Development of the Jewish Tradition | |
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| Hebrew Origins and Early History | |
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| Israel's Ancestral Narratives | |
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| Characteristics of the Ancestral Narratives | |
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| The Ancestral World | |
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| Ancestral Religion | |
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| The Exodus and Wilderness Traditions | |
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| Characteristics of the Exodus-Wilderness Narratives | |
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| The Era of the Judges | |
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| The Settlement in Canaan | |
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| Tribal Life and Leadership | |
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| The Divine-Human Encounter in the Era of the Judges | |
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| The United Kingdom and the Yahwistic History | |
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| The Desire for a King | |
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| The First Kings: Saul and David | |
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| The Reign of Solomon | |
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| Theological Developments During the Monarchy | |
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| The Yahwistic History | |
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| The Divided Kingdom: Israel and Judah | |
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| The Nature of the Sources | |
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| The Division of the Kingdom | |
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| The Northern Kingdom (922-722 B.C.E.) | |
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| The Southern Kingdom (922-587 B.C.E.) | |
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| The Institution of Prophecy | |
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| Background of Hebrew Prophecy | |
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| The Nature of Hebrew Prophecy | |
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| Functions of the Hebrew Prophets | |
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| Representatives of Preliterary Prophecy | |
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| The Divine-Human Encounter in the Preliterary Prophets | |
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| The Preexilic Prophets | |
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| Amos | |
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| Hosea | |
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| Isaiah | |
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| Micah | |
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| Jeremiah | |
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| Zephaniah | |
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| Nahum | |
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| Habakkuk | |
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| The Preexilic Prophets and the Divine-Human Encounter | |
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| The Exile, Exilic Prophets, and Exilic Histories | |
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| The Historical Situation | |
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| The Exilic Prophets | |
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| The Exilic Histories | |
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| The Restoration of Judah | |
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| The Restoration (538-424 B.C.E.) | |
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| The Literature of the Restoration | |
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| The Divine-Human Encounter in the Restoration | |
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| The Psalms and Wisdom Literature | |
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| Psalms | |
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| Wisdom Literature | |
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| Judaism in the Hellenistic and Roman Eras | |
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| Political Developments in Palestine | |
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| Religious Developments in Judaism | |
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| Literary Developments in Judaism | |
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| Daniel and the Books of the Apocrypha | |
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| The Book of Daniel | |
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| The Books of the Apocrypha | |
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| The Influence of the Apocrypha | |
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| The Divine-Human Encounter in the Hellenistic and Roman Eras | |
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| Origins and Early Development of the Christian Tradition | |
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| The Life and Teachings of Jesus | |
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| Sources of Information | |
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| Obstacles to Achieving a Biography of Jesus | |
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| Core Elements of a Life Sketch of Jesus | |
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| The Development of the Gospels: From Oral Traditions to Mark | |
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| From Oral Traditions to Written Gospels | |
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| The Gospel of Mark | |
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| The Further Development of the Gospels: Matthew, Luke, and John | |
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| The Gospel of Matthew | |
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| The Gospel of Luke | |
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| The Gospel of John | |
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| Beyond the Four Gospels | |
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| The Development of the Early Church: The Acts of the Apostles | |
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| "Beginning in Jerusalem" (Acts 1-6) | |
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| "In Samaria and Judea" (Acts 7-8) | |
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| "To the Ends of the Earth" (Acts 9-28) | |
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| The Kerygma of the Emerging Church and the Divine-Human Encounter | |
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| Paul and His Cultural Environment | |
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| The Greco-Roman World | |
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| Sources for the Life and Teaching of Paul | |
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| The Life of Paul | |
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| Paul and His Writings | |
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| Paul as a Letter Writer | |
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| The Contents of Paul's Letters | |
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| The Divine-Human Encounter in Paul | |
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| The Developing Institutional Church | |
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| From Charisma to Institution | |
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| Sources for Study | |
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| The Church Distinguishes Right Belief from False Teachings (James; 1, 2, 3 John; Jude; 2 Peter, Colossians; 2 Thessalonians) | |
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| The Church Establishes Its Structure (1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, Ephesians) | |
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| The Church Encourages Fidelity in Difficult Times (Hebrews, 1 Peter) | |
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| The Divine-Human Encounter: Keeping the Faith in Later Generations | |
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| The Church in Conflict | |
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| Conflict with Judaism | |
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| Conflict with Rome | |
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| A Response to Persecution: The Book of Revelation | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |