The Oxford History of the Biblical World

ISBN13: 9780195139372ISBN10: 0195139372 Paperback, 508 pages
Mar 2001,  In Stock

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Table of Contents

List of Maps
Preface
Prologue: In the Beginning: The Earliest History , Michael D. Coogan
1. Before Israel: Syria-Palestine in the Bronze Age , Wayne T. Pitard
2. Bitter Lives: Israel in and out of Egypt , Carol A. Redmount
3. Forging an Identity: The Emergence of Ancient Israel , Lawrence E. Stager
4. "There Was No King in Israel": The Era of the Judges , Jo Ann Hackett
5. Kinship and Kingship: The Early Monarchy , Carol Meyers
6. A Land Divided: Judah and Israel from the Death of Solomon to the Fall of Samaria , Edward F. Campbell Jr.
7. Into Exile: From the Assyrian Conquest of Israel to the Fall of Babylon , Mordechai Cogan
8. Israel among the Nations: The Persian Period , Mary Joan Winn Leith
9. Between Alexandria and Antioch: Jews and Judaism in the Hellenistic Period , Leonard J. Greenspoon
10. Visions of Kingdoms: From Pompey to the First Jewish Revolt , Amy-Jill Levine
11. Churches in Context: The Jesus Movement in the Roman World , Daniel N. Schowalter
Epilogue: Transitions and Trajectories: Jews and Christians in the Roman Empire , Barbara Geller