The Old Testament Story
ISBN: 9780135132463 | 0135132460
Edition: 8thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2009
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For Introduction to the Old Testament courses. Designed for students with little or no knowledge of the Old Testament, this text provides complete background detail as it follows the story told by the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible. Examines the separate biblical books and illustrates the literary structure of each of the books of the Protestant Christian Old Testament/Hebrew Bible.
Designed for students with little or no knowledge of the Old Testament, this text provides complete background detail as it follows the st... MORE
Designed for students with little or no knowledge of the Old Testament, this text provides complete background detail as it follows the st... MORE
| Bibliographical Abbreviations | p. xiii |
| Maps | p. xv |
| Preface | p. xvii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xviii |
| The Book and Those Who Study It | p. 1 |
| The Old Testament: What Is It? | p. 2 |
| How It Began | p. 4 |
| How It Developed | p. 6 |
| The Work of Scholars | p. 9 |
| Archaeology as a Tool for Understanding | p. 16 |
| Why Study ... MORE | p. 22 |
| Study Questions | p. 23 |
| Endnotes | p. 23 |
| The Geographical and Historical Settings for the Old Testament Prior to 1200 B.C.E. | p. 25 |
| The Ancient Near East | p. 26 |
| Mesopotamia | p. 27 |
| Asia Minor | p. 29 |
| Egypt | p. 29 |
| Syria-Phoenicia | p. 30 |
| Palestine | p. 32 |
| Study Questions | p. 39 |
| Endnotes | p. 39 |
| Israel Looks at the Beginnings | p. 41 |
| The Primeval Complex | p. 42 |
| The Ancestral Complex | p. 52 |
| Genesis in Retrospect | p. 64 |
| Study Questions | p. 65 |
| Endnotes | p. 66 |
| Israel Becomes a People: Exodus and Wilderness | p. 68 |
| The Book of Israel's Beginnings | p. 70 |
| Moses: Birth and Wilderness Years | p. 71 |
| Moses: The Struggle with the Pharaoh | p. 74 |
| The Exodus Event | p. 80 |
| Sinai and the Giving of the Law | p. 85 |
| After Mount Sinai | p. 96 |
| Themes in the Pentateuch | p. 102 |
| Study Questions | p. 103 |
| Endnotes | p. 104 |
| Israel Gains a Home: Joshua and Judges | p. 106 |
| Moving into the Promised Land | p. 107 |
| Continuing the Story of Occupation | p. 116 |
| Proposed Models for the Israelite Occupation of Canaan | p. 127 |
| Study Questions | p. 128 |
| Endnotes | p. 129 |
| Israel Demands a King: Samuel and Saul | p. 131 |
| The Sources for the Story of the Israelite Kingdoms | p. 132 |
| The Story of Samuel | p. 133 |
| The Establishment of Saul's Kingship (1020-1000 B.C.E.) | p. 139 |
| The Appearance of David | p. 143 |
| Samuel, Saul, and David: A Summary | p. 150 |
| Study Questions | p. 150 |
| Endnotes | p. 151 |
| Israel's Time of Glory: David and Solomon | p. 152 |
| David: King Over Judah | p. 153 |
| David: King Over All Israel | p. 154 |
| The Court History of David | p. 156 |
| The Reign of Solomon | p. 165 |
| Study Questions | p. 175 |
| Endnotes | p. 175 |
| Israel Becomes Two: The Story of the Northern Kingdom | p. 177 |
| Approaching the Divided-Kingdom Story | p. 178 |
| The Division of the Kingdom | p. 179 |
| The Dynasty of Omri | p. 182 |
| Elijah's Confrontations with Ahab and Jezebel | p. 186 |
| Jehu to Jeroboam II (842-746 B.C.E.) | p. 193 |
| Israel's Eighth-Century Prophets: Amos and Hosea | p. 194 |
| The Destruction of the Northern Kingdom | p. 212 |
| Study Questions | p. 212 |
| Endnotes | p. 213 |
| Judah: Rehoboam to Hezekiah (922-687 B.C.E.) | p. 215 |
| Judah After the Division | p. 216 |
| The Eighth-Century Prophets from Judah | p. 218 |
| Study Questions | p. 237 |
| Endnotes | p. 238 |
| Judah: Manasseh to Zedekiah and the Exile | p. 239 |
| The International Situation | p. 240 |
| The Situation in Judah | p. 240 |
| King Jehoiakim and the Prophets Nahum and Habakkuk | p. 246 |
| The Final Years of Judah and the Prophet Jeremiah | p. 250 |
| Study Questions | p. 270 |
| Endnotes | p. 270 |
| The Exile: Judah's Dark Night of the Soul | p. 272 |
| After the Fall of Jerusalem | p. 273 |
| With the Exiles in Babylon | p. 278 |
| The Prophet of the Transition: Ezekiel | p. 280 |
| The Collapse of the Babylonian Empire | p. 297 |
| The Exiles' Great Unknown Prophet: Isaiah 40-66 | p. 298 |
| Study Questions | p. 312 |
| Endnotes | p. 313 |
| The Post-Exilic Period: Judah Revived | p. 314 |
| The Changing International Situation (538-486 B.C.E.) | p. 315 |
| The Restored Community | p. 315 |
| Ezra and Nehemiah | p. 321 |
| Study Questions | p. 328 |
| Endnotes | p. 328 |
| A Legacy of Israel: Teachers of Wisdom and Singers of Songs | p. 329 |
| The Wisdom Literature | p. 330 |
| Israel Sings Its Faith | p. 352 |
| Study Questions | p. 364 |
| Endnotes | p. 365 |
| The Time of Silence: Judah in Eclipse | p. 367 |
| The Historical Situation | p. 368 |
| The Maccabean Revolt | p. 369 |
| The Word of the Lord in Difficult Times | p. 370 |
| Study Questions | p. 388 |
| Endnotes | p. 388 |
| Epilogue: The Continuing Story | p. 390 |
| Life in Jewish Communities | p. 391 |
| The Rise of Parties and Sects | p. 392 |
| Literary Activity | p. 394 |
| Judaism's Oral Tradition | p. 397 |
| The End of the Matter | p. 398 |
| Study Questions | p. 398 |
| Endnotes | p. 399 |
| Glossary | p. 400 |
| For Further Study | p. 409 |
| Comprehensive Chronological Chart | p. 415 |
| Credits | p. 419 |
| Index | p. 421 |
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