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| Preface | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| In The Beginning | |
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| Introduction: �Is God on Our Side?� The Two Religions | |
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| �Then God Said, 'Let there be light!'� (Gen. 1) | |
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| The Bible as Story and as History | |
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| �By the Sweat of Your Face You Shall Eat Bread� (Gen. 2-3) | |
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| �And He Built a City� | |
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| East of Eden | |
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| �Am I My Brother's Keeper?� (Gen. 4) | |
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| The Historical Origins of �the City� | |
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| YHWH's Regret (Gen. 5-9) | |
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| The Beginning of Empire (Gen. 10-11) | |
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| Making One's Name Great | |
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| �Let Us Make a Name for Ourselves�: The Tower of Babel (Gen. 11) | |
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| �I Will Make Your Name Great�: YHWH's Call to Abram to Come Out of Empire (Gen. 12) | |
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| The Well-Watered Plain of Sodom | |
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| Turning to Egypt for Food (Gen. 12) | |
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| Choosing for Oneself (Gen. 13-14) | |
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| Entertaining Angels … or Not (Gen. 15-19) | |
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| Fulfilling YHWH's Promises | |
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| Ishmael �yitzchaqing� (Gen. 21) | |
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| The Binding of Isaac (Gen. 22) | |
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| Acquiring a Holding in the Land (Gen. 23) | |
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| Finding a Wife for Isaac (Gen. 24) | |
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| Two Nations Are in Your Womb (Gen. 25) | |
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| Learning to Be a Trickster (Gen. 27-29) | |
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| Wrestling with God and Humans (Gen. 31-32) | |
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| The Price of Settling Too Soon | |
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| From Exodus To Exile: The Two Religions In Conflict Amid God's People | |
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| Entering the �Exit Story� | |
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| Solomon's Wisdom | |
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| Dating Solomon | |
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| Solomon's �Nation Building� | |
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| Not Dividing the Baby | |
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| Finding the �Way Out� | |
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| Jeroboam's Rebellion | |
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| Birthing Israel, the People of YHWH | |
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| The Revenge of the Shilonites | |
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| Kissing Calves | |
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| Elijah, �Troubler of Israel� and His Successor, Elisha | |
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| Amos and Hosea: Calling Israel Back to the Sinai Covenant | |
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| �I Have Found the Book of the Torah in the House of YHWH!� | |
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| Hezekiah, Isaiah, and Micah Respond to the Threat of Assyria | |
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| Josiah, the Deuteronomistic History's True Hero | |
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| Monarchy, according to the Compromise Narrative | |
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| Role of Moses and Joshua | |
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| The Destruction of Jerusalem and the End of the Monarchy | |
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| What Was �Israel� before the Monarchy? | |
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| From Exile To Easter: Fallen Jerusalem, Fallen Babylon | |
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| The First Fall of Jerusalem: Jeremiah and Ezekiel | |
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| Jeremiah | |
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| Ezekiel | |
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| �In the Wilderness, Prepare the Way of YHWH�: Envisioning a Way out of Exile | |
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| �Comfort, O Comfort My People�: Second Isaiah's Promise of Release from the Prison of Exile | |
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| Ezekiel, Part Two: New Jerusalem | |
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| The Struggle over Jerusalem's Restoration | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Haggai-Zechariah | |
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| The Law of Your God and the Law of the King: The Imperially Sponsored Restoration Project of Ezra-Nehemiah | |
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| against the Poor | |
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| �Do Not Let the Foreigner Joined to YHWH say, 'YHWH Will Surely Separate Me from His People' �: The Dissenting Voice of Third Isaiah | |
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| Genesis for a New Generation | |
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| Second Zechariah and the Beginning of Eschatological Hope | |
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| Leviticus: Cosmos, Temple, and Text in Microcosm | |
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| Chronicles: David as Patron of the Priesthood and Temple | |
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| �The Books of Moses� as Persian-supported �law� for Yehud | |
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| Assessing the Range of Visions for the Restored People of God | |
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| Seeking �Wisdom� under Greek Rule, Part One: The Ptolemaic Empire | |
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| From Persia to Greece | |
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| Wisdom from Above: A Brief Overview of �Royal Wisdom� | |
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| Hellenistic Royal Ideology in Ptolemaic Egypt | |
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| �I Will Send You the Prophet Elijah�: Malachi and the Closure of the Era of Prophecy | |
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| �All the Earth Was Filled with the Godlessness and Violence That Had Befallen It�: First Enoch's Book of the Watchers | |
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| �All Is Vapor�: Qoheleth's �Pox� on Both Houses | |
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| Seeking �Wisdom� under Greek Rule, Part Two: The Seleucid Empire | |
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| The Shift from Ptolemaic to Seleucid Rule of Judea in 200 BCE | |
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| Royal Wisdom on the Eve of Crisis: The Book of Sirach | |
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| The Epistle of Enoch: Measuring �Weeks� until the Coming of God's Reign | |
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| The Crisis under Antiochus IV Epiphanes | |
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| The Maccabees: Zealous and Violent Defenders of the Temple and of Religious Tradition | |
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| �And They Began to Open Their Eyes�: Enoch's Dream Visions | |
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| �And I Saw One Like a Human Being�: The Book of Daniel | |
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| From Greece to Rome: Longing for God's Reign to Come | |
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| The Hasmonean Dynasty: Empire from Within | |
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| Cosmos and Calendar: Enoch's Astronomical Book and the Book of Jubilees | |
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| The Qumran Community: Awaiting the �End of Days� in the Desert | |
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| The Temple Scroll: Envisioning a New Temple and a New King for Israel | |
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| Psalms of Solomon: Looking for a Messiah to Save Jerusalem | |
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| The Reign of Herod the Great, Puppet of Rome | |
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| Parables of Enoch: Awaiting the Son of Man | |
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| From Easter to the Eschaton: Jesus' Fulfillment of the Religion of Creation and Defeat of the Religion of Empire | |
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| Enlightenment and Empire: Reading Jesus from the Locus Imperii in the Light of the Resurrection | |
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| The Gospel of Jesus Christ against the Gospel of Empire | |
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| �The Beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ�: The Gospel of Mark | |
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| �Strive First for the Kingdom of God�: Matthew's Gospel | |
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| Proclaiming Jubilee: Luke's Gospel and Acts of the Apostles | |
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| �Savior of the World�: The Gospel of John | |
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| �Christ the Power of God and the Wisdom of God�: Paul's Counter-imperial Gospel | |
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| Paul's �Conversion� | |
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| Forming and Nurturing Communities of the �Called Out� (ekklesiai) | |
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| Paul's Gospel of the Victory of the Creator God over the Gods of Empire | |
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| �Come Out, My People�: The Book of Revelation | |
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| Conclusion: Hearing and Responding to God's Call: �Come Out, My People!� | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |