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| Abbreviations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction Old: Testament Theology as Narrative | |
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| Theology | |
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| Old Testament Theology | |
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| Old Testament Gospel | |
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| Old Testament Story | |
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| God Began: Creation | |
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| God Thought | |
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| God Spoke | |
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| God Birthed | |
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| God Prevailed | |
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| God Created | |
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| God Built | |
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| God Arranged | |
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| God Shaped | |
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| God Delegated | |
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| God Planted | |
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| God Relaxed | |
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| God Started Over: From Eden to Babel | |
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| Disobedience and Discovery | |
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| Expulsion and Loss | |
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| Violence and Curse | |
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| Fall and Ruin | |
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| Grace and Exemption | |
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| Realism and Pledging | |
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| Abuse and Strife | |
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| God Promised: Israel's Ancestors | |
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| God's Charge and God's Promises | |
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| God's Blessings: Nationhood and Land | |
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| Being a Blessing | |
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| Abraham's God and Other Peoples | |
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| Promise and Fulfillment | |
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| The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob | |
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| God Who Acts | |
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| Relating to God | |
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| Marriage and Parenthood | |
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| Family Life | |
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| God Delivered: The Exodus | |
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| God Who Creates and Delivers | |
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| God Who Remembers | |
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| God Who Works via People | |
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| God Who Does Signs and Wonders | |
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| God Who Insists | |
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| God Who Reigns | |
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| How God Is Revealed | |
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| How God Relates to Foreign Peoples | |
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| How God's Resolve Relates to Human Resolve | |
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| How God's Act Relates to the Future | |
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| God Sealed: Sinai | |
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| Yhwh's Covenant | |
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| Yhwh's Expectations | |
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| Yhwh's Presence: At the Mountain | |
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| Yhwh's Presence: In a Sanctuary | |
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| Yhwh's Presence: In Experience | |
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| Yhwh's Dilemma: Punishment and Mercy | |
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| Facing Up to Infidelity | |
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| Models of Servanthood | |
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| Models of Peoplehood | |
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| God Gave: The Land | |
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| The People of God: Sustained, Disappointed and Protesting | |
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| The People of God: Bride and Rebel | |
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| The People of God: Chastised and Mercied | |
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| War, Its Nature and Its Rationales | |
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| War as the Means of Receiving God's Gift | |
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| The Crusade for Holiness | |
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| The Acknowledgment of God | |
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| The Gift of God: The Land | |
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| The Giving of God: Fulfillment and Shortfall | |
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| God Accommodated: From Joshua to Solomon | |
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| One People, One God? | |
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| Leadership | |
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| Monarchy | |
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| Temple | |
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| Israel and Other Peoples | |
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| Being Human | |
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| Being Men | |
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| Being Women | |
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| Yhwh's Acting | |
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| God Wrestled: From Solomon to the Exile | |
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| Where Yhwh Is Active | |
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| What Yhwh Expects | |
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| How Yhwh Reacts | |
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| How History Works | |
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| How Yhwh Works | |
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| How Kings Exercise Leadership | |
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| Prophets as Men of God | |
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| Prophets as Seers and Sentinels | |
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| Prophets as Troublemakers | |
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| Is There a Future? | |
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| God Preserved: Exile and Restoration | |
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| God Abandoned | |
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| God Returned | |
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| A Restored Community | |
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| A Worshiping Community | |
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| A Listening Community | |
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| A Distinct Community | |
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| A Subservient Community | |
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| A Priest and Theologian | |
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| A Man Who Prays and Builds Walls | |
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| A Wise Politician | |
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| An Intrepid Woman | |
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| God Sent: The Coming of Jesus | |
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| Jesus: Herald of God's Reign | |
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| Jesus: Prophet and Teacher | |
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| His Followers | |
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| Jesus: The Man Anointed as King | |
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| Jesus: Word Embodied | |
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| Divine Surrender | |
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| The Community of the Risen Lord | |
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| Jesus: Light of the World | |
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| Postscript: Old Testament Theology and History | |
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| Narrative and History | |
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| History and Criticism | |
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| Creation and History | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |
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| Scripture Index | |