Israel and the Nations The History of Israel from the Exodus to the Fall of the Second Temple

Name: Israel and the Nations The History of Israel from the Exodus to the Fall of the Second Temple
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ISBN: 9780830815104

ISBN-10: 0830815104

ISBN-13: 9780830815104

Edition: 1997 (Revised)

Authors: F. F. Bruce, David F. Payne

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The story of Israel is one of the outstanding tales of human history. Israel, occupying a narrow strip of land between sea and desert, was positioned on an international highway of commerce and warfare. This was a people whose future would be intertwined with the stories of nations great and small.F. F. Bruce shapes the daunting complexities of this history, nearly fourteen hundred years from the exodus to the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70, into straight prose that sparkles with clarity. More than half of the book is devoted to the postexilic history of Israel, the "intertestamental" period and the first-century history that forms the backdrop of the New Testament.First published in…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Publication date: 8/3/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 270
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

<b David F. Payne</b served as Senior Lecturer in Semitic Studies at Queen's University of Belfast and Academic Dean of London Bible College. He is the author of several books and articles on the Old Testament.



Prefaces


Introduction



Israel's Beginnings



The Philistines and the Hebrew Monarchy



The Reign of David



Solomon and His Successors



The Dynasty of Omri



The Syrian Wars and the Rise of the Prophets



The Fall of the Northern Kingdom



Hezekiah and the Assyrian Peril



Apostasy and Restoration



Last Days of the Kingdom of Judah



The Exile



When the Lord Turned Again the Captivity of Zion



The People of the Law



The Jews in the Persian Empire



Rival Greek Empires



Oniads and Tobiads



And Ambitious Greek King



The Abomination of Desolation



The Hasmonaean Resistance



Judas Maccabaeus



Independence Won



The Hasmonaean Dynasty



The Roman Conquest



The Reign of Herod



The Sons of Herod and the Early Roman Governors



Herod Agrippa and the Jews



Troubles Mulitply in Judaea



The War with Rome and the End of the Second Temple


Genealogical and Chronlogical Tables


Bibliography


Abbreviations


Index