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List of Tables and Figures | |
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Introduction | |
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For Instructors | |
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For Students | |
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Summary of Chapters | |
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An Issue of Distance | |
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The Immediate Text | |
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The Remote Text | |
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The Middle Ground | |
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Two Religions, One Set of Texts | |
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Implications of the Designation Old Testament | |
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The Relationship Between the Old and New Testaments | |
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Interpreting the Old Testament | |
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A Matter of Method | |
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Interpretive Method | |
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Source Criticism | |
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Redaction Criticism | |
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From a Hunch to a Hypothesis | |
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Inductive Thinking | |
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Deductive Thinking and Hypotheses | |
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The Two-Source Hypothesis | |
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What About Language? | |
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Translation and Interpretation: An Example | |
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Translation and the Problem of Language | |
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Translation and the Jesus Tradition | |
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Translation and the Church | |
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Biblical Versions | |
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To Hear and to See | |
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Oral and Literary Culture | |
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The Character of Written Texts | |
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Be It History or Literature? | |
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Historical Interpretation | |
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Literary Interpretation | |
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The Bible: A Book or a Library? | |
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The Diversity of Literary Genres | |
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The Diversity of Historical and Theological Circumstances | |
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Like an Ever-flowing Stream | |
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Form Criticism | |
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Redaction Criticism, Recontextualization, and Intertextuality | |
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The History of Traditions and the Formation of the Canon | |
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Let's Just Read It Literally | |
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The Surface Level of the Biblical Text | |
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The Intent of the Biblical Author | |
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The Accuracy of the Biblical Text | |
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What Is Truth? Fact, Myth, and Moral Critique | |
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Truth as Historical Correspondence | |
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Truth by Definition and the Power of Myth | |
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Biblical Truth and Moral Critique | |
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This Canon Has One "N" | |
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Canonization | |
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Canon as Foundational Text | |
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The Church and the University | |
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The Three Legs of Interpretation | |
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Constituency | |
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Location | |
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Function | |
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A Question of Purity | |
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The Rise of Judaism | |
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"Matter" out of Place | |
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Digging in the Text and in the Dirt | |
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Textual Material | |
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Archaeological Material | |
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Biblical Scholars and Archaeologists in Conversation | |
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The Bible and the Examined Life | |
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Introductory Courses, Old and New | |
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Teaching Goals | |
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Index of Terms and Names | |
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Index of Biblical References | |