Preface | p. xi |
Survey of the Old Testament and Its History | |
The Parts of the Old Testament | p. 3 |
Name and Structure | p. 3 |
The Formation of the Canon | p. 6 |
The Stages of Israel's History | p. 8 |
Nomadic Antiquity | p. 9 |
The Early Period before the State (Settlement and Age of the Judges) | p. 15 |
The Period of the Monarchy | p. 18 |
The Period of the United Kingdoms | p. 19 |
The Period of the Divided Kingdoms The Northern Kingdom, Israel | p. 20 |
The Southern Kingdom, Judah | p. 23 |
The Exilic and Postexilic Periods | p. 25 |
Aspects of Social History | p. 28 |
The Nomadic Clans | p. 28 |
Ownership of Land | p. 31 |
Changes Brought by the Monarchy | p. 33 |
Social Contrasts in the Time of the Major Prophets | p. 35 |
The Postexilic Situation | p. 37 |
Traditions and Documentary Sources of the Pentateuch and the Historical Books | |
The Pentateuch | p. 41 |
Name and Structure | p. 41 |
Stages and Problems of Pentateuchal Scholarship | p. 44 |
Criticism of Moses' Authorship | p. 44 |
Discovery and Delimitation of the Pentateuchal Sources | p. 45 |
Dating of the Documentary Sources | p. 46 |
Results and Still Open Questions of Literary Criticism | p. 48 |
Form Criticism and Tradition History | p. 58 |
Selected Types of Narrative | p. 63 |
Myth and Primeval History | p. 63 |
The Saga as a Form of Transmission | p. 65 |
The Individual Saga | p. 65 |
Etiological Motifs | p. 69 |
Sanctuary Legends | p. 69 |
Saga Cycles and Later Form of the Sagas | p. 70 |
The Joseph Novella | p. 71 |
The Yahwist History | p. 75 |
Introductory Questions | p. 75 |
Theological Intentions | p. 79 |
The Elohist History | p. 84 |
Introductory Questions | p. 84 |
Theological Intentions | p. 89 |
The Priestly Document | p. 93 |
Introductory Questions | p. 93 |
Theological Intentions | p. 102 |
Old Testament Law | p. 110 |
The Forms of Legal Statement | p. 110 |
Collections of Laws | p. 114 |
The Decalogue | p. 114 |
The Book of the Covenant | p. 116 |
The Law of Holiness | p. 118 |
Deuteronomy | p. 120 |
Introductory Questions | p. 120 |
Theological Intentions | p. 129 |
The Deuteronomistic History | p. 136 |
Introductory Questions | p. 136 |
Theological Intentions | p. 140 |
From the Book of Joshua to the Books of Kings | p. 145 |
The Book of Joshua | p. 145 |
The Book of Judges | p. 148 |
The Books of Samuel | p. 151 |
The Books of Kings | p. 156 |
The Chronicler's History | p. 160 |
Chronicles | p. 160 |
Ezra and Nehemiah | p. 162 |
Theological Intentions | p. 167 |
The Prophets | |
The Form of Prophecy | p. 173 |
Prophetic Utterance and Prophetic Book | p. 173 |
Distinction between Oral Proclamation and Written Record | p. 173 |
Distinction between Individual Utterance and Composition | p. 175 |
Distinction between Original Prophetic Utterance and Later Redaction | p. 177 |
Main Categories of Prophetic Literature | p. 180 |
Stories about the Prophets | p. 180 |
Visions | p. 182 |
Words | p. 183 |
Questions in Contemporary Study of the Prophets | p. 188 |
Precursors of the Writing Prophets | p. 190 |
Amos | p. 194 |
Hosea | p. 201 |
Isaiah | p. 209 |
Micah | p. 220 |
Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, and Obadiah | p. 225 |
Jeremiah | p. 233 |
Ezekiel | p. 246 |
Second Isaiah and Third Isaiah | p. 256 |
Haggai, Zechariah, Second Zechariah, Malachi | p. 270 |
Joel and Jonah | p. 282 |
Daniel | p. 288 |
Liturgical and Sapiential Poetry | |
The Psalter | p. 299 |
Song of Solomon, Lamentations, Ruth, and Esther | p. 311 |
Proverbs | p. 321 |
Qoheleth or Ecclesiastes: Solomon the Preacher | p. 328 |
The Book of Job | p. 333 |
Theology and Hermeneutics | |
Discourse about God in the Old Testament | p. 343 |
The Question of the Unity of the Old Testament Aspects of a "Theology of the Old Testament" | p. 366 |
On Understanding Humankind: Anthropological Insights of the Old Testament | p. 372 |
For and Against the Old Testament: Hermeneutic Themes | p. 389 |
Bibliography | p. 399 |
Index | p. 449 |
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