Exploring the Bible
ISBN: 9780073407364 | 0073407364
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 2/26/2009
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Exploring the Bibleprovides students with a clear, concise, and accessible introduction to the Bible, both Old and New Testaments. The book combines current scholarship with a fresh, readable analysis of the biblical literature, placing each document in its socio-historical context. Student-friendly, it facilitates learning with helpful pedagogical features, ranging from "Key Topics/Themes" summarizing crucial information at the head of each chapter to an extensive glossary of essential terms at the end of the book. At the close of each chapter... MORE
| An Introduction to the Bible and the Biblical World | |
| The Bible: An Overview | |
| How the Bible Was Created: Transmission, Canonization, and Translation | |
| The Ancient Near East: The Environment that Produced the Bible | |
| The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament | |
| A Survey of the Torah (Divine Teaching): Themes and Theories | |
| In the Beginning: The Book of Genesis | |
| Freedom and Re... MORE | |
| Law, Holiness, and Rebellion: The Books of Leviticus and Numbers | |
| A New Vision of Moses' Teaching: The Book of Deuteronomy | |
| The Story of Ancient Israel: How the Promised Land Was Gained and Lost | |
| Faith and War: The Book of Joshua | |
| Yahweh's Warriors: The Book of Judges | |
| The Rise of David and the Birth of a Kingdom: The Books of 1 and 2 Samuel | |
| From the Glory of Solomon to Exile in Babylon: The Books of 1 and 2 Kings | |
| The Prophets: Proclaiming the Word of Yahweh | |
| Prophets to the Northern Kingdom: The Oracles of Amos and Hosea | |
| Prophets of the Assyrian Threat: The Oracles of Isaiah, Micah, Zephaniah, and Nahum | |
| Prophets of the Babylonian Crisis: The Oracles of Jeremiah, Habakkuk, and Obadiah | |
| Prophets in Exile: The Oracles of Ezekiel and Second Isaiah | |
| After the Exile: Israel's Last Prophets: The Oracles of Haggai, Zechariah, Third Isaiah, Joel, Malachi, and Jonah | |
| The Writings: Israel's Changing Life with God | |
| The Postexilic Readjustment: The Books of Ezra and Nehemiah | |
| Worshiping at the Second Temple: Hebrew Poetry and the Book of Psalms | |
| Israel's Wisdom Writers: The Books of Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes | |
| Festival Scrolls: The Books of Ruth, Song of Songs, Lamentations, and Esther | |
| Reinterpreting Israel's History: The Books of 1 and 2 Chronicles | |
| Keeping God's Law in a Hostile World: Revolt of the Maccabees and the Book of Daniel | |
| The "Second Canon": Books of the Apocrypha | |
| The New Testament | |
| The World in Which Christianity Originated: Roman Power, Greek Culture, and the Cult of Deified Rulers | |
| First-Century Judaism: Diversity, Messianic Expectations, and the Birth of Christianity | |
| Telling Jesus' Story: The Gospel of Mark | |
| The Synoptic Problem: The Gospel of Matthew and Its Relationship to the Gospels of Mark and Luke | |
| Jesus as a Savior for "All Nations": The Gospel of Luke | |
| Another Way of Telling Jesus' Story: The Gospel of John | |
| An Account of Early Christianity: The Book of Acts | |
| Paul and the Gentile Mission: Letters to Churches in Thessalonica, Corinth, Galatia, Rome, Philippi, and Colossae | |
| Continuing the Pauline Tradition: 2 Thessalonians, Colossians, Ephesians, and the Pastoral Epistles | |
| General Letters on Faith and Behavior: Hebrews and the Catholic Epistles | |
| Continuing the Apocalyptic Hope: The Book of Revelation | |
| Our Judeo-Christian Heritage: The Biblical Concept of God Glossary | |
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