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| Bibliographical Abbreviations | |
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| Maps | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Book and Those Who Study It | |
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| The Old Testament: What Is It? | |
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| How It Began | |
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| How It Developed | |
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| The Work of Scholars | |
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| Archaeology as a Tool for Understanding | |
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| Why Study the Old Testament? | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| The Geographical and Historical Settings for the Old Testament Prior to 1200 B.C.E. | |
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| The Ancient Near East | |
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| Mesopotamia | |
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| Asia Minor | |
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| Egypt | |
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| Syria-Phoenicia | |
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| Palestine | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Israel Looks at the Beginnings | |
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| The Primeval Complex | |
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| The Ancestral Complex | |
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| Genesis in Retrospect | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Israel Becomes a People: Exodus and Wilderness | |
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| The Book of Israel's Beginnings | |
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| Moses: Birth and Wilderness Years | |
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| Moses: The Struggle with the Pharaoh | |
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| The Exodus Event | |
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| Sinai and the Giving of the Law | |
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| After Mount Sinai | |
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| Themes in the Pentateuch | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Israel Gains a Home: Joshua and Judges | |
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| Moving into the Promised Land | |
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| Continuing the Story of Occupation | |
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| Proposed Models for the Israelite Occupation of Canaan | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Israel Demands a King: Samuel and Saul | |
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| The Sources for the Story of the Israelite Kingdoms | |
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| The Story of Samuel | |
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| The Establishment of Saul's Kingship (1020-1000 B.C.E.) | |
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| The Appearance of David | |
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| Samuel, Saul, and David: A Summary | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Israel's Time of Glory: David and Solomon | |
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| David: King Over Judah | |
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| David: King Over All Israel | |
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| The Court History of David | |
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| The Reign of Solomon | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Israel Becomes Two: The Story of the Northern Kingdom | |
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| Approaching the Divided-Kingdom Story | |
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| The Division of the Kingdom | |
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| The Dynasty of Omri | |
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| Elijah's Confrontations with Ahab and Jezebel | |
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| Jehu to Jeroboam II (842-746 B.C.E.) | |
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| Israel's Eighth-Century Prophets: Amos and Hosea | |
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| The Destruction of the Northern Kingdom | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Judah: Rehoboam to Hezekiah (922-687 B.C.E.) | |
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| Judah After the Division | |
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| The Eighth-Century Prophets from Judah | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Judah: Manasseh to Zedekiah and the Exile | |
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| The International Situation | |
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| The Situation in Judah | |
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| King Jehoiakim and the Prophets Nahum and Habakkuk | |
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| The Final Years of Judah and the Prophet Jeremiah | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| The Exile: Judah's Dark Night of the Soul | |
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| After the Fall of Jerusalem | |
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| With the Exiles in Babylon | |
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| The Prophet of the Transition: Ezekiel | |
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| The Collapse of the Babylonian Empire | |
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| The Exiles' Great Unknown Prophet: Isaiah 40-66 | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| The Post-Exilic Period: Judah Revived | |
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| The Changing International Situation (538-486 B.C.E.) | |
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| The Restored Community | |
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| Ezra and Nehemiah | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| A Legacy of Israel: Teachers of Wisdom and Singers of Songs | |
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| The Wisdom Literature | |
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| Israel Sings Its Faith | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| The Time of Silence: Judah in Eclipse | |
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| The Historical Situation | |
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| The Maccabean Revolt | |
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| The Word of the Lord in Difficult Times | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Epilogue: The Continuing Story | |
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| Life in Jewish Communities | |
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| The Rise of Parties and Sects | |
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| Literary Activity | |
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| Judaism's Oral Tradition | |
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| The End of the Matter | |
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| Study Questions | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| For Further Study | |
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| Comprehensive Chronological Chart | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |