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| Beginnings | |
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| Introduction. | |
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| Definitions. | |
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| Methodology. | |
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| The Main Concerns of Postcolonialism: Characteristics of Subaltern Writings and Readings in Religion and Theology. | |
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| The Crisis of the Late Bronze Age and the Spawning of New Empires and Kingdoms (1250-1150 B.C.E.). | |
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| First Cause: Natural Cataclysm or the Conquest of Troy? | |
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| The Fall of Troy and the Mycenean and Minoan Empires | |
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| The Formation of New Kingdoms and Empires in Asia Minor | |
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| The Disruption of the Imperial Period in Egypt and the Decline of the Ramesside Dynasty | |
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| The Fall of the Empire of the Mitanni | |
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| The Emergence of Assyria and Babylonia | |
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| Egyptian Imperialism: The Origins of Ancient Israel in Egypt (LBA) | |
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| The Ancient Near in the Late Bronze Age (1550-1200 B. C. E.) | |
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| The Egyptian Empires | |
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| Isael in Egypt: Slavery and Liberation | |
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| A Postcolonial Interpretation. | |
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| Liberated Colonies and the Formation of a Tribal Nation: Israel's Entrance into Canaan and the Period of the Judges (Iron I) | |
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| Introduction: Canaan and the Early Iron Age (Iron I, 1200-1000 B. C. E.) | |
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| The �ǣConquestï¿½Ç of Canaan in Biblical Literature. | |
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| Three Historical Interpretations of Israel's Entrance to the Land: Military Invasion, Peaceful Infiltration, and Revolution. | |
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| Postcolonial Interpretation | |
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| Imperialism in Early Israel: The Davidic-Solomonic Empire (1000-922 B. C. E.) | |
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| The Failure of the Monarchy of Saul | |
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| The Kingship of David and the Israelite Empire | |
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| The Kingship of Solomon and the Development of the Empire | |
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| Postcolonial Interpretation | |
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| Imperialism: The Establishment of the Northern Empire (922-722 B. C. E.) | |
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| The Division of the Empire (The Divided Kingdoms) | |
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| The Northern Empire (Israel) | |
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| The Southern Kingdom (Judah) | |
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| Postcolonial Interpretation. | |
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| Imperialism: The Assyrian Empire (745-612 B. C. E.) | |
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| Israel | |
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| Judah | |
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| The DH and the Classical Prophets (First Isaiah and Jeremiah), a Conflict in Ideologies. | |
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| Postcolonial Interpretation. | |
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| Imperialism: The Babylonian Empire (612 - 539 B. C. E.) | |
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| Judah as a political, social, and religious colony prior to rebellion and the exile. | |
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| Exile and Deportation: Life in the Diaspora/Exile and the Means of Preserving Identity | |
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| The Classical Prophets (Second Isaiah and Ezekiel): the new Exodus and the New Jerusalem. | |
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| The Books of Job, Habakkuk, and Lamentations: a Time for Mourning and Questioning. | |
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| Postcolonial Interpretation. | |
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| Imperialism: The Persian Empire (539-332 B. C. E.) | |
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| Imperial policies of the Achaemenid Dynasty: Cessation of Exile, Requirements of Codification, and the Propaganda of Tolerance | |
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| The Return from Exile and the Rebuilding of the Temple | |
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| The Rebuilding of the City walls by Nehemiah | |
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| The Reform of Ezra and the Constructing of Second Temple Judaism | |
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| The Formulation of the Torah as the Central Defining Document for Early Judaism | |
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| Postcolonial Interpretation. | |
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| Imperialism: The Greek Empire (332-164 B. C. E.) | |
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| Alexander the Great and Hellenism | |
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| The Ptolemies (312 -200 B. C. E.) | |
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| The Seleucids (200-164 B. C. E.) | |
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| The Book of Qoheleth as a Criticism of Divine Justice in Controlling History | |
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| Early Apocalypticism: The Book of Daniel, the Isaiah Apocalypse, Deutero-Zechariah (9-14), and the Book of Enoch. | |
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| The Development of Jewish Sects: Essenes (Qumran), Pharisees, Sadducees, Hellenistic Judaism, and Zealots and their varied responses to Torah, Hellenism, and imperialism | |
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| Postcolonial Interpretation. | |
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| Jewish Assimilation of Hellenistic Culture (especially in Egypt, according to the Wisdom of Solomon); Jewish Toleration of Hellenism (Ben Sira); the .Rejection of Hellenistic Culture (I Maccabees). | |
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| The Status of Women | |
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| Apocalyptic Vision: the Reign of God and the Defeat of the Wicked Empires (Daniel and I Enoch). | |
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| Postcolonialism: the Maccabean Empire (164-63 B. C. E.) | |
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| National Self-Rule | |
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| The Importance of Temple, Torah, Jerusalem, and Empire (David and Solomon) | |
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| Colony to Rome | |
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| The Partition into Kingdoms | |
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| Postcolonial Interpretation | |
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| Neo-Imperialism: The Roman Rule of Judea in the Late Republic (65 B. C. E.) and the Subsequent Empire (30 B. C. E.-72 C. E.) | |
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| Roman Imperial Policies | |
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| Jewish political and socio-religious life in the Roman Empire | |
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| The Great Revolt (66-72 C. E.) and the Destruction of Jerusalem | |
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| Postcolonial Interpretation | |
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| A Post-Colonial Postscript | |