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| Setting the Scene | |
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| The land | |
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| Mapping Biblical narratives | |
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| Historical geography and archaeology | |
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| Writing, archives, and libraries in the ancient Near East | |
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| The Bible and ancient history | |
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| Pagan cults and religious practice | |
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| Routes and distances | |
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| The Patriarchs | |
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| Hunters, farmers, and metalworkers | |
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| Noah's descendants | |
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| The first cities | |
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| Abraham's migration | |
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| Wanderings and journeys of the patriarchs | |
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| Jacob and Joseph | |
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| Egypt and the Exodus | |
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| Egyptian expansion into Canaan | |
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| Ugarit - center of trade and influence | |
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| The Amarna tablets and Sety l's campaigns | |
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| Ramesses II of Egypt in contest with the Hittite empire | |
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| Routes of a scribe and Pharaoh Merneptah | |
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| Canaan's trade with Mycenae and Cyprus | |
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| Changes beyond Israel's borders in the 13-12th centuries BC | |
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| Route of the Exodus | |
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| Conquest and Occupation | |
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| The conquests of Joshua in Canaan | |
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| Occupation of the land | |
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| The Philistines | |
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| The age of the judges | |
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| The United Kingdom | |
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| Saul's kingdom | |
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| David's rise to power | |
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| David's kingdom | |
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| Solomon's kingdom | |
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| Temples and shrines in Palestine | |
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| Solomon's Jerusalem | |
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| Israel's relationship with Phoenicia | |
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| The Divided Kingdom | |
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| The kingdom divided | |
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| Shishak's invasion | |
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| Omri, Ahab, and Elijah | |
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| Israel and Moab | |
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| Israel's relations with Aram | |
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| The Assyrians | |
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| Peace and prosperity under Jeroboam II | |
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| Assyrian sovereignty over Israel | |
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| The fall of Israel | |
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| The resurgence of Judah's power | |
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| Assyrian attacks on Philistia and Judah | |
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| Judah under Hezekiah and Manasseh | |
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| The end of the Assyrian empire | |
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| The rise of Babylon | |
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| The reign of Josiah | |
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| Nebuchadnezzar and the fall of Jerusalem | |
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| The Persian empire | |
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| Between the Testaments | |
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| Judah in the Hellenistic world | |
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| Judah and the Ptolemies | |
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| The Seleucid empire | |
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| The Maccabees | |
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| Jewish independence - the Hasmonaean monarchy | |
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| The development of the synagogue | |
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| Palestine under the Romans | |
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| Rome's expansion | |
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| The Herodian kingdom | |
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| Jerusalem under Herod the Great | |
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| The Dead Sea Scrolls and their writers | |
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| Roman rule after Herod | |
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| Galilee and the ministry of Jesus | |
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| Jesus' last days | |
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| The Early Church | |
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| The Jewish Diaspora | |
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| Jewish life in the Diaspora | |
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| The cities of Paul | |
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| The journeys of Paul | |
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| Beyond the times of the Bible | |
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| The First Jewish Revolt | |
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| The Second Jewish Revolt | |
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| Roman Palestine after the revolts | |
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| The growth of Christianity | |
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| Israel and Palestine today | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| Acknowledgments and picture credits | |