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| New to this Edition | |
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| Preface | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Credits | |
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| Introductory | |
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| What is the Old Testament? | |
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| Chapter and Verse | |
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| The Jewish Canon | |
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| The Christian Canons | |
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| The Canons of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament | |
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| A Look Back and Ahead | |
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| The Promised Land: Geography, History, and Importance | |
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| Geography | |
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| History | |
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| Timeline | |
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| Importance | |
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| A Look Back and Ahead | |
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| Cosmic Origins | |
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| Creations Genesis 1-3 | |
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| The Book of Genesis | |
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| Genesis 1 and the Sabbath | |
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| Genesis and Science | |
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| The Sabbath in Jewish and Christian Tradition | |
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| The Second Account of Creation (Gen 2.4b-3.24) | |
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| Myth and the Bible | |
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| "God" and the Lord (God) | |
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| The Garden of Eden | |
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| Adam and Eve in Jewish and Christian Tradition | |
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| A Look Back and Ahead | |
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| The Formation of the Pentateuch and the Primeval History Genesis 4-11 | |
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| The Traditional View | |
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| The Development of Modern Interpretation | |
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| A Summary of the Documentary Hypothesis | |
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| The Formation of the Pentateuch | |
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| Challenges to the Documentary Hypothesis | |
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| Other Strategies for Interpreting the Pentateuch | |
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| Primeval History J (the Yahwist Source) | |
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| Cain and Abel | |
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| Noah's Drunkenness | |
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| The Sons of God P (the Priestly Source) | |
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| The Tower of Babel | |
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| The Table of Nations The Flood | |
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| The Documentary Hypothesis at Work A Look Back and Ahead | |
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| National Origins | |
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| The Ancestors of Israel Genesis 12-50 | |
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| The Nature of the Narratives | |
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| Source Criticism | |
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| Abram and Abraham, Sarai and Sarah | |
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| The Binding of Isaac | |
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| Form Criticism | |
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| Circumcision | |
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| Ancient Near Eastern Parallels | |
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| The Ugaritic Texts | |
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| The Joseph Narrative | |
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| The Ancestors of Israel | |
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| Abraham, Father of Believers | |
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| History and the Ancestors of Israel | |
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| The Religion of the Ancestors | |
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| A Look Back and Ahead | |
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| Escape From Egypt Exodus 1-15 | |
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| The Book of Exodus | |
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| Exodus 1-15 | |
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| Legends of Rescue | |
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| The Divine Name Yahweh | |
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| The Hardening of the Pharaoh's Heart | |
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| The Development of the Passover Celebration | |
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| The Exodus and History | |
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| The Exodus and the History of Religions | |
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| A Look Back and Ahead | |
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| From Egypt to Sinai Exodus 16-24 | |
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| Itineraries | |
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| Incidents on the Journey | |
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| Manna | |
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| The Location of Sinai | |
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| At Sinai | |
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| Covenant | |
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| The Ten Commandments | |
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| The Status and Numbering of the Ten Commandments | |
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| The Ratification of the Covenant | |
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| A Look Back and Ahead | |
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| Law, Ritual, and Holiness Exodus 20.22-23.33 and 25-40 and Leviticus | |
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| Law in the Ancient Near East | |
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| Excerpt from the Code of Hammurapi | |
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| The Covenant Code (Ex 20.22-23.33) | |
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| The Ark, the Tabernacle, and the Priestly Vestments and Ordination | |
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| "An Eye for an Eye" | |
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| The Golden Calf | |
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| Forty Days and Forty Nights | |
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| The Ritual Decalogue | |
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| An Ancient Hebrew Agricultural Calendar | |
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| Sequel | |
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| The Book of Leviticus | |
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| Sacrifices (Lev 1-7) | |
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| The Consecration Ceremonies and Their Aftermath (Lev 8-10) | |
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| Purity and Impurity (Lev 11-15) | |
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| The Day of Atonement | |
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| The Holiness Code | |
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| Capital Punishment | |
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| Women in Israelite Ritual and Law | |
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| The Ethics of Leviticus | |
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| A Look Back and Ahead | |
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| In the Wilderness Numbers | |
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| The Book of Numbers | |
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| Preparations for the Journey | |
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| Law, Ritual, and Purity | |
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| The Chronology and Geography of the Wanderings | |
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| Rebellions in the Wilderness | |
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| Miriam | |
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| Opposition on the Journey | |
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| Excerpt from the Deir Alla Texts | |
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| Preparations for the Entry into the Land | |
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| A Look Back and Ahead | |
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| The End of the Journey to the Promised Land Deuteronomy | |
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| The Book of Deuteronomy | |
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| The Shema | |
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| The Origins of Deuteronomy | |
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| The Deuteronomic School | |
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| The Character and Personality of Moses | |
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| The Meanings of "Torah" | |
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| A Look Back and Ahead | |
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| Joshua and the Conquest of the Land of Canaan Joshua | |
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| The Deuteronomistic History | |
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| The Book of Joshua | |
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| History and the Book of Joshua | |
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| Shechem in Biblical Tradition | |
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| A Look Back and Ahead | |
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| The Emergence of Israel in the Land of Canaan Judges and Ruth | |
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| The Book of Judges | |
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| Book of Judges | |
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| The Moabites and the Ammonites | |
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| The Song of Deborah | |
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| The Philistines | |
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| History and the Israelite Confederation | |
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| The Book of Ruth | |
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| A Look Back and Ahead | |
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| Kings and Prophets | |
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| The Establishment of the Monarchy 1 Samuel | |
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| The Books of Samuel | |
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| Samuel | |
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| Positive Assessments of Saul | |
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| History | |
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| A Look Back and Ahead | |
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| The Reign of David 2 Samuel, 1 Kings 1-2 | |
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| Samuel | |
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| David's Compositions | |
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| Jerusalem | |
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| A Look Back and Ahead | |
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| The Reign of Solomon 1 Kings 1-11 and Psalm 89 | |
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| The Books of Kings | |
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| Kings 1-11 | |
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| Solomon in Later Tradition | |
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| The Ideology of the Davidic Monarchy | |
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| The Royal Ideology in Later Traditions | |
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| A Look Back and Ahead | |
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| The Divided Kingdoms of Israel and Judah from the Late Tenth to the Early Eighth Centuries BCE 1 Kings 12-2 Kings 14 | |
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| History | |
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| Chronology of the Kings of Israel and Judah Late Tenth to Mid-Eighth Centuries BCE | |
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| Institutions and Society | |
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| Prophets and Prophecy | |
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| Prophets in Later Traditions | |
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| The Legends of Elijah and Elisha | |
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| Elijah in Later Tradition | |
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| A Look Back and Ahead | |
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| The Northern Kingdom of Israel in the Eighth Century BCE 2 Kings 14-17, Amos, and Hosea | |
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| History | |
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| Chronology of the Eighth Century BCE | |
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| Prophetic Books and "Classical" Prophecy | |
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| Amos | |
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| The Day of the Lord | |
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| Hosea | |
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| Prophetic Attacks on Rituals | |
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| Marriage in Ancient Israel | |
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| A Look Back and Ahead | |
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| The Kingdom of Judah in the Eighth and Early Seventh Centuries BCE 2 Kings 15-20, 2 Chronicles 29-32, Isaiah 1-39, and Micah | |
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| History | |
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| Chronology of the Eighth and Seventh Centuries BCE | |
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| The Reign of Hezekiah | |
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| Isaiah | |
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| The Siege of Jerusalem in 734 BCE | |
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| The Identity of Immanuel | |
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| The Assyrian Invasion of Judah in 701 BCE | |
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| Sennacherib's Attack on Jerusalem (701 BCE) according to the Assyrian Annals | |
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| Hezekiah's Tunnel | |
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| Micah | |
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| A Look Back and Ahead | |
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| Judah in the Seventh and Early Sixth Centuries Bce: The End of Assyrian Domination and the Fall of Jerusalem 2 Kings 21-25, 2 Chronicles 33-36, Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Jeremiah | |
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| History | |
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| Chronology of the Seventh and Early Sixth Centuries BCE | |
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| The Reign of Manasseh | |
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| Ashurbanipal's Library | |
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| The Reign of Josiah | |
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| Megiddo and Armageddon | |
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| The Last Kings of Judah | |
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| The Fall of Jerusalem | |
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| The Book of Zephaniah | |
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| The Book of Nahum | |
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| The Book of Habakkuk | |
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| Jeremiah | |
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| Jeremiah in Postbiblical Tradition | |
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| A Look Back and Ahead | |
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| Exile and Return | |
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| After The Fall: Jews in Judah and Babylon Lamentations, Psalm 137, Obadiah, and Ezekiel | |
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| History | |
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| The Book of Lamentations | |
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| Acrostic Poems | |
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| The Jews in Babylonia | |
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| Psalm 137 | |
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| The Book of Obadiah | |
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| Ezekiel | |
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| Yahweh as Violent Spouse | |
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| Gog of Magog | |
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| A Look Back and Ahead | |
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| Return from Exile Ezra 1-2 and Isaiah 34-35 and 40-55 | |
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| History | |
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| Chronology of the Sixth Century BCE | |
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| The Priestly Source of the Pentateuch | |
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| The Exilic Edition of the Deuteronomistic History | |
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| Isaiah 40-55 | |
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| The Development of Monotheism | |
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| Female Images of God | |
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| A Look Back and Ahead | |
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| Reconstruction, Consolidation, and Challenge | |
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| The Restoration: Judah in the Late Sixth and Fifth Centuries BCE Ezra 3-10, Haggai, Zechariah, Isaiah 24-27 and 56-66, Joel, and Malachi | |
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| History | |
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| Chronology of the Mid-Sixth to the Fourth Centuries BCE | |
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| Ezra 3-6 | |
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| Aramaic | |
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| The Book of Haggai | |
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| Zechariah 1-8 | |
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| Isaiah 56-66 | |
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| The Books of Ezra and Nehemiah | |
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| The Elephantine Papyri | |
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| Apocalyptic Literature | |
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| The "Isaiah Apocalypse" (Isa 24-27) | |
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| Zechariah 9-14 | |
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| The Book of Joel | |
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| The Book of Malachi | |
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| A Look Back and Ahead | |
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| The Consolidation of Traditions 1-2 Chronicles, Psalms, and Proverbs | |
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| The Books of Chronicles | |
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| Samaria and the Samaritans | |
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| The Book of Psalms | |
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| Parallelism | |
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| Music in Ancient Israel | |
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| Wisdom Literature | |
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| The Book of Proverbs | |
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| A Look Back and Ahead | |
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| Dissidents, Lovers, and Heroes Job, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Jonah, Esther, and Daniel | |
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| The Book of Job | |
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| The Satan | |
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| "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth" | |
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| Behemoth and Leviathan | |
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| Job's Wife and Daughters | |
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| The Book of Ecclesiastes | |
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| The Development of Beliefs in Life after Death in Ancient Israel | |
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| The Song of Solomon | |
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| Historical Romances | |
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| The Book of Jonah | |
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| The Book of Esther | |
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| The Festival of Purim | |
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| The Book of Daniel | |
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| Angels and Demons | |
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| "Son of Man" | |
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| A Look Back and Ahead | |
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| Appendix: The ApocryphalBooks | |
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| Revisions of and Additions to BiblBooks | |
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| Historiographic Literature | |
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| Historical Fiction | |
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| Wisdom Literature | |
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| Other Compositions | |
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| Chronology | |
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| General Bibliography | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Weights and Measures | |
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| Index | |