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| Editor's Preface | |
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| Author's Preface | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| History and the Genre(s) of the Bible: Is the Bible a History Book? | |
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| The Bible's Macro-Genre and the Issue of Truth | |
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| The Bible as a Foreign Book | |
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| Genre Criticism and Biblical Interpretation | |
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| Genre Criticism and the Rise of Biblical Poetics | |
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| An Example: Judges 4 and 5 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| History and Fiction: What Is History? | |
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| History-Writing as Representational Art | |
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| History-Writing as a Creative Enterprise | |
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| Characteristics of Successful Representation | |
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| The Adequacy and Authority of Representation | |
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| An Example: Samuel-Kings and Chronicles | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| History and Truth: Is Historicity Important? | |
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| "What Is Truth?" | |
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| The Importance of History for Christian Faith | |
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| The (Post-) Enlightenment Challenge to the Importance of History for Faith | |
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| D. F. Strauss and the Demolition of Biblical History | |
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| An Example: "If Jericho Was Not Razed, Is Our Faith in Vain?" | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| History and Modern Scholarship: Why Do Scholars Disagree? | |
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| Anti-Theological Tendencies in Some Historical-Critical Approaches | |
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| Anti-Literary Tendencies in Some Social-Scientific Approaches | |
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| Anti-Historical Tendencies in Some Literary Approaches | |
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| An Example: The Emergence of Israel in Canaan Debate | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| History and Hermeneutics: How Then Should We Read the Bible "Historically"? | |
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| Preparation: Contemplating Models | |
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| Procedure: Coordinating Methods | |
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| Presentation: Constructing Arguments | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| An Extended Example: The Rise of Saul | |
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| Purported Obstacles to a Coherent Literary Reading of Saul's Rise | |
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| Saul's First Charge as a Two-Stage Affair | |
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| "Gapping" as Literary Device and the Gap Between 1 Samuel 10 and 13 | |
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| Making Sense of Saul's Rise | |
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| Good Story, But Is It History? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Index of Authors/Titles | |
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| Index of Biblical Passages | |
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| Index of Subjects | |